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    get a job‚ to get away from the drought and some people even had war fever. On the other hand‚ some people went because they felt like it was the right thing to do and because everyone else was doing it. A lot of time people think only about the soldiers that went to war and forget about the women who also enlisted as nurses and did other important jobs. England was like home to the Australian’s but is that really why they went to war‚ when it comes down to it this is only a small reason as to why

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    Twenty- one.  A guard of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier takes twenty-one steps during his walk across.  This number alludes to the twenty-one gun salute‚ the highest honor given any military of foreign dignitary.  The guards hold their task in their highest regards.  They look their ability to guard the Tomb of the Unknown in highest regards.  Similarly‚ it would be an indescribable honor for me to be able to lay the wreath upon the Tomb.  Three reasons why it would be such an honor to be able to

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    However Source 9 tells “casualties were low simply because men were in trenches.” This gives the impression that life in trenches was not so bad after all. It explains how the trenches saved the lives of the troops and clearly were an asset to the soldiers. However from my own knowledge I see the trenches to have; scraps of discarded food‚ empty tins and other waste‚ the nearby presence of the latrine‚ the general dirt of living half underground and being unable to wash or change for days or weeks

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    Soldiers Home Short Story

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    Compare and Contrast of “Soldiers Home” and “How to Tell a True War Story” Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” and O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” are two similar yet contrasting stories. The Protagonists in both stories are soldiers of war but they fought in different wars. In Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” Harold‚ was a soldier returning from the First World War in Germany. In O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” Bob (Rat) Kiley was a soldier in Vietnam during the Vietnamese War. Both

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    Vietnam era the phrase PTSD was not developed and the condition was not fully understood‚ with the advent of the recent conflicts in the middle east the need to diagnose the condition and elaborate on it has become apparent. The cause of PTSD in soldiers can seem obvious‚ but as I’ve noticed from personal experiences there is nothing common about the cause and effect of PTSD.

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    Soldier Boys Book Summary

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    The title of my book was Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes and it was a fiction book‚ published in 2003. Soldier Boys was during WWII in Germany and Brighman City‚ Utah. It tells the story of an American and German teenaged boy. They join the war and fight in the battle of the Bulge. Spencer Morgan on the American side and Dieter Hedrick on the German side. Dieter at the age fifteen got promoted from the Hitler Youth to the German army. He wants to prove to everyone that he is brave and that he can go

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    EFFECT IN SOLDIERS Post traumatic stress disorder has many effects on people in everyday life; such as the effects in family‚ friends‚ and even their career. Post traumatic stress disorder‚ also known as PTSD‚ is quite common in today’s military. The reason for this can somewhat be explained in the definition of ptsd: The type of anxiety disorder that comes from an event in which you’ve seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death. Our soldiers‚ while they

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    Shauna Crawford Mr. Meadows ENG 102 20 January 2014 Soldier Do not speak unless spoken to; always begin and end your sentence with “Drill Sergeant;” stand up straight; lace up your boots tighter; blouse your pants like this; do not say sorry‚ try harder; curl those damn fingers; thirty inch steps precisely not baby ones; just look forward to chow time; lights out is at 2100 sharp; wake up is at 0400; quit making excuses; this is how you shine your shoes; this is how you make a bed; this is how

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    SOLDIER’S HOME by Ernest Hemingway Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers‚ all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar. He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not return to the United States until the second division returned from the Rhine in the summer of 1919. There is a picture which shows him on the Rhone with two German girls and another corporal. Krebs and the corporal look too big for

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    are made up of boys(“11 facts”). There are some girls taken away and put into their armies to fight‚ but most of them are used for other reasons. Over the past two years 20 states have reported to have child soldiers in government or non-government groups (“11 facts”). The use of Child Soldiers is inhumane because they are forced into the military at a young age‚ taken away from their families‚ and used on the front lines. Most of these kids are forced into the military at a young age. No matter how

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