O"Brien is a reluctant soldier and morally opposed to the war. ... I did not want to be a soldier, not even observer of the war. ... O"Brien narrates his experience of being a foot soldier. ... The soldiers had many thought's the plagued them. ... "The Ghost Soldiers" was a story of revenge by O"Brien on a young medic, Bobby Jorgenson, who almost let die, because he had become frozen with fear. ...
When Owen is playing the part of the ghost of Christmases yet to come in A Christmas Carol he swears that he sees his name and the date of his death on a tombstone. ... The USA seems to think that they have a destiny to go to Vietnam, and sacrifice the lives of many innocent, young soldiers in a war that is not their own. ...
Phnom Penh effectively turned out to be a ghost city consisting of around 32,000 individuals in 1978 compared to the initial 457,000 individuals in 1970 as the majority of the urban population migrated to the country to work (Phnom Penh. ). ... This major failure of government caused major disparity as factory workers, soldiers, and party leaders received proper nutrition whilst the elderly, the sick, and children suffered from starvation and malnutrition (Becker, 1998). ...
