Regardless, soldiers are trained to battle, and that is what they do. ... Cross also plans to make his men "get their shit together, and keep it together, and maintain it neatly and in good working order. ... The soldiers lose purpose and motivation. ... Although good intentions existed at the beginning, the war is continued because of American pride. American citizens do not want the war and neither do the soldiers. ...

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War is not like Looney Tunes and other cartoons where the good guys cheerfully chase after the bad guys and destroy them, only to meet them again the next episode. ... The war victimized the soldiers. The terror war put in the soldiers" eyes can not be described. ... The good guys do die, and they don't return for the next episode. ... However, those brave soldiers didn't die in vain. ...

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Ted Lavender's death and how the men react to it show its impact on the soldiers. ... The soldiers also carry "the soldier's greatest fear, which [is] the fear of blushing" (258). ... It is almost as if the soldiers fight and even die because they are ashamed not to. ... Unfortunately, Cross's fantasy ends up causing more bad than good.             ... Cross serves as the best example of a soldier burdened by responsibility. ...

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It deals with an American soldier whose girlfriend is stuck in the eastern side of Berlin. ... Victor Ross is the American Soldier in the Western part of Berlin during the wall was being erected. ... The Russians were behind it all in East Germany; communism, the Berlin Wall, training soldiers, and stopping riot. ... It all sounds good but then comes the disadvantages of communism. ... The Movie is about an American soldier, Victor Ross, who's in West Berlin during the split of West and East Berlin. ...

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In "Fallen Angels" Myers' characterizes the loss of innocence through the young soldiers differs from O'Brien in "The Man I Killed". ... Although as the war persisted and Richie gets a real taste of war, he is faced with the inhumane acts that come along with war, such as the cruelty and senseless lives lost from both opposition of the VCs and the American soldiers. ... Richie does the same but in a different way, instead of going towards comic relief or thinking of himself as a character in the movie he questions why the other soldiers in his company and him are ...

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About 58,000 Americans were killed and over 300,000 American soldiers were injured. ... Following these grueling tasks, the soldiers would learn how to shoot their weapons and how to clean them after use. ... Altogether, the U.S spent a little over 16 weeks preparing the American soldier for a different kind of warfare. ... After saying their "good-byes" and "I love yous" it was time for them to start a journey into unknown territory in South East Asia. ... The living conditions in Vietnam for U.S soldiers were very rough. ...

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Just over 60,000 Australia soldiers fought in the war with 521 Australian's killed and approximately 3,000 wounded. ... In 1954 the French was eliminated for good in Vietnam. ... Vietnam also has a jungle terrain which Australian soldiers would have never experienced causing a disadvantage for us. The war slowly progressed and support for Australian soldiers fighting was diminishing. ...

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"We had hoped America would abide by the agreement that we reached that Afghanistan should be a neutral, democratic country that would have good relations with its neighbors and with both the U.S. and the USSR," the former Soviet leader said. ... Despite Gorbachev's warning, Obama is considering a military request to send in as many as 400,000 more US soldiers to Afghanistan, in addition to the 68,000 soldiers that will already be there by the end of the year. ...

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In this article I felt that Machiavelli's primary argument was that, "the sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers" (Machiavelli 230). ... Although I do agree with him that good soldiers are a major factor in becoming victorious in war, I also do believe that money is also a major factor. ... It is the countries with advance weapons technology that are feared and powerful, whether they have "good soldiers" or not. ...

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Soldiers and civilians alike on both sides of the battle gave their lives for what they believed in and some had no idea what was going on until it was too late. ... (Knox, 6-8) The United States lost 54,000 soldiers and 8,000 were missing in action. ... In 1950, 3,200 United States soldiers were released from POW camps. ... Others felt that World War II was the last "good war" , and all other wars should be a source of shame. ... There is no such thing as a "good war", but there are some wars that have to be fought. ...

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By the end of it, tens of thousands of soldiers were dead, and almost one million civilians lost their lives in the conflict. ... Later that month the Soviet Union, under the command of Leonid Brezhnev, invaded Afghanistan with over 85,000 soldiers [Chr08]. ... The use of these deadly weapons did not do much good for the Russians, it had little effect on the guerrilla fighters, but the civilian casualties were enormous. ...

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In Dylan's "Hero Blues" (lyrics) he explains doesn't want to be a soldier or go to war. ... From the lyrics: "When I'm dead/ No more good times will I crave/ You can stand and shout hero/ All over my lonesome grave"(1.) he shows us that war will do nothing for him but kill him. It is clear that he has no patriotic drive when it comes to being a soldier. ...

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Hand-held cameras help pull us into the horror of the beach invasion--as if we're watching newsreel cameramen as they follow the soldiers. ... Nor does it really make it clear that we must resist war, even if it is accompanied by the seductive speeches of political leaders saying that this latest war, unlike other bad wars we remember, will be another "good" one, like World War 2. ... Spielberg's real interest lay elsewhere: he wants us to understand the effect that war had upon the psyches of the men who endured its battles, he wants us to appreciate the great sacrifice that the sol...

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John F Kennedy was a good and tried to be a good president, but most of his bills did not pass. ... Another thing that JFK wanted to do was to avoid war in Vietnam and solve it peacefully, but he ended up sending soldiers to Vietnam which started a war. ...

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It's clear to see the fact that presently, countries don't attack countries with cavalry or soldiers instead they usually sit back buy bombs and missiles before causing devastation to countries and cities in an instant. ... During the Roman Empire the most popular dish would have been pottage which was a mixture of a variety of vegetables and some meat as well as that it was either eaten with rice or cooked with risotto to eat as a scrumptious dish with bread (it wouldn't actually taste very good in that time period compared to what we could make these days however it would be e...

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