It's hard to keep a good poise of yourself when you have civilians harassing you verbally and using obscene gestures. ... Health conditions are another big factor while sending these soldiers out to Iraq. ... One of the major reasons why the soldiers tend to get sick is because of all the doses they receive at one time and that's one way they lose a war easily by having soldiers sick. ... One thing soldiers barely see in the field is a fresh meal. ... Sometimes there might a lack of water and that plays a major role for these soldiers. ...

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Truman had many good reasons of dropping the atomic bomb. ... Also the American soldiers were going through very harsh treatment by the Japanese. ... In the end the war was over and with loss of many soldiers the number who lived is greater. ... Truman had many good reasons of dropping the atomic bomb. ... Also the American soldiers were going through very harsh treatment by the Japanese. ...

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The fact that the soldiers placed an American flag in his hand first was very symbolic. The soldiers should have never done that. ... The American flag showed some selfishness that the American soldiers had at the time. ... I always thought I had a pretty good understanding of what was going on in the government, but possibly I am in that so called "trance". ... Allen Fotheringham gives a good example by saying "Americans as individuals are wonderful companions. ...

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In the end, it comes down to the question of whether it is just or not to risk the public safety of foreign countries to save our country's soldiers. ... Drones allow governments to achieve military objectives without risking the lives of soldiers, sailors, and pilots. ... Would you be opposed to saving the lives of military soldiers, at the possible expense of innocent lives? ... A positive that can be found in the use of these drones is that they truly will save many lives of American soldiers and allies of ours all around the world. ... It saves lives yet costs a good lump of money t...

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Plus the government own large sums of money to the soldiers who fought in the war and it did not make sense to tax these soldiers and with that pay them their dues. ... The reason for a change of currency was that during the Revolutionary War, Congress and the states had printed "good faith" paper currency that said that the soldiers would be paid once the government got back on its feet. ...

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Overall, Bush does his best to picture a military strike against Iraq as a defensive action for the good of everybody, to describe the USA in a very positive way as the world's selfless liberator, who is furthermore being part of some bigger plan of God. In the first paragraph Bush portrays Iraqi as "brave" but "oppressed" (l. 5) and lays emphasis on the fact that Saddam is Iraq's real foe by the parallelism "Your enemy is not surrounding your country -- your enemy is ruling your country"(l. 6,7), which is both entertaining and creating a contrast between the "good" invader and t...

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Ohio Leaders in the Civil War Ohio played an intricate role during the Civil War. The contributions toward the conflict were very impressive. Ohio had many eligible men serving in the military forces who participated in nearly every battle of the war. Military leadership proved substantial in numb...

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Introduction John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head at approximately 10:15 on Good Friday evening of April 14, 1865 while the nation's sixteenth President sat in a private box at Washington's Ford's Theater watching a performance of the humorous Our American Cousin. ... Booth was never officially arrested for the assassination of President Lincoln because a soldier, with the orders to take the killer alive, violated his orders and gunned down Booth. The soldier who claimed that he shot Booth, Boston Corbett, was never punished for disobeying h...

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Today the demand for whistleblowers is greater than ever . Whistleblowers, according to Oxford Dictionary, are people who inform on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity . In this case they are informing on the government . The reason whistleblowers are so important, is due to the ...

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One person that was being punished in that circle was Sinon the Greek, who talked the Trojans into accepting the Trojan horse that contained soldiers that eventually sprung from it and destroyed Troy. ... They were not convinced that his motives were not for the common good of the world, but they believed that he was only doing it to set up another puppet in the middle east and to take control of the worlds third largest oil reserve. ... In the ancient story "Gilgamesh" the main character Gilgamesh himself is a good example of what president Bush is like. ... He fought against Lucius for the c...

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The people endowed Abraham with a sense of humor, and physical power, which gave him a good impression. ... When the war started the confederate states over powered the north almost with continuous winning, the north struggled in the beginning due to the inexperienced volunteers and soldiers, but soon the battle of Gettysburg was a tremendous turning point victory to Lincoln. ...

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From Washington being one of the best presidents to Richard Nixon abusing of his power by wiretapping, we take a look into the background of each presidents' presidency, and discover what the motives were behind each decision that was made; whether they were good or bad, or successful or ended up in a loss. ... Robert Divine states that because of Eisenhower's "strict constructionisn" (pg. 224) it prevented him from making a good judgment call and sending a large number of soldiers to Vietnam. ...

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Red, white, and blue are colors perceived as patriotic, noble, strong, and commonly good. ... He respected the establishment that the ancestors, soldiers, and earlier Americans laid while he pulled on the heartstrings of Americans. ...

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Do you ever feel like you are being watched? You can't shake the feeling that someone or something is watching your every move. Then you think that is impossible because you have been all over town today. But people don't realize that it isn't impossible that someone can follow you all day or even a...

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Lincoln demonstrated one of the traits that made him such a good leader early on when he decided not to attack the confederacy and declare war but stated that they would would not be the first to act if war was imminent. ... With the war in full scale Lincoln saw that he would need a lot more than the 75,000 current Unions soldiers he currently had and called another 500,000 union troops to fight. ...

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Now controlling the government, Amin instituted an advisory defense council composed of military commanders, placed military tribunals above the system of civil law, appointed soldiers to top government posts, and even informed the newly inducted civilian cabinet ministers that they would be subject to military discipline. ...

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