Guns booming, missiles crashing, and soldiers yelling for help, in my mind this is exactly what I think my brother is walking into. My older brother Chris is going to be 22 on Friday the 12th, although I won't get to wish him a happy birthday. Why? Because my brother has put a temporary hold on his life to help others, he is in the United States Army, and has just left for the sandy lands of Iraq. Chris joined the Army right out of high school thinking that it was going to be an exciting experience and a challenge. Now I think he regrets the decision he has made. I know that he is proud to be helping the people in Iraq, and protecting his family, and the rest of the United States, but I don't think when he joined he knew he might be putting his life on the line.
My family along with many others is suffering great losses, many of our brothers, sisters, fathers, and mothers are being sent to Iraq to ensure their freedom and to protect the people living in the United States. I know that there isn't any other way around sending troops there but I selfishly, silently wish that it wasn't my brother, why couldn't it be someone elses? .
Also there is the occasional person that bad mouths what the soldiers are over in Iraq doing, usually when I hear those words I bite my tongue but one of these days im going to speak my mind. Do they really think these men and women want to be away from their families, in some strange place where there is the possibility of dying? That is highly unlikely they simply are just doing what they have to do so they can come home as soon as possible, and they don't need citizens of the United States whom they are also protecting to be bashing them, what they really need is our support.
Even though, in death, the soldier must leave England, it's only for a little while. ... Line 14: When the soldier dies he will go to an "English heaven." ... That, at any rate, is what the second half of "The Soldier" tells us. ... So check it out: like any sonnet, "The Soldier" has 14 lines. ... ANALYSIS SPEAKER The speaker of "The Soldier," is the soldier. ...
Wilfred Owen is a tired soldier on the front line during World War I. ... Owen then moves on to tell us how even in their weak human state the soldiers march on, until the enemy fire gas shells at them. This sudden situation causes the soldiers to hurriedly put their gas masks on, but one soldier did not put it on in time. ... Owen uses this image group usually to describe the situation of a soldier or soldiers during the poem. ... Overall Wilfred Owen shows that there is no triumph in war, he does this by using the dying soldier as an example. ...
Wilfred Owen is a tired soldier on the front line during World War I. ... Owen then moves on to tell us how even in their weak human state the soldiers march on, until the enemy fire gas shells at them. This sudden situation causes the soldiers to hurriedly put their gas masks on, but one soldier did not put it on in time. ... Owen uses this image group usually to describe the situation of a soldier or soldiers during the poem. ... Overall Wilfred Owen shows that there is no triumph in war, he does this by using the dying soldier as an example. ...
Bob Marley began to work in the song in 1978, after reading about the black American soldiers decorated in the late 1800. The issues that the song "Buffalo Soldier" talks about are directly related to its title. ... Bob Marley prefers to preach the real account so that the Buffalo Soldiers are properly remembered. ... "Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta There was a Buffalo Soldier In the heart of America Stolen from Africa, brought to America fighting on arrival, fighting for survival." ... The fighting, for the Buffalo Soldiers, began in their homeland. ...
Cheyenne Dog Soldiers (A Description) There was a time when the Cheyenne had no formal government. ... The Dog Soldiers were known for their harsh punishment of criminals as well as their ferocity in battle. Among the Dog Soldiers as a select group who wore a sash around their necks, at the end of which was a stake. ... The Cheyenne Dog Soldiers became respected and feared by almost every other nation on the plains. ... No chief would sign a treaty or act on his own accord without the approval of the Dog Soldiers....
A soldier may stop receiving treatment for PTSD for a variety of reasons. ... Many soldiers that are in a volunteer force want to be selected for deployment. ... Another example of a PTSD sufferer's experience involves Alex, a soldier in the Army. ... It was a decision I made, to find my life again," stated this soldier who had witnessed another soldier open-fire on Camp Liberty base in Baghdad, killing five soldiers and wounding three. ... We need to let our soldiers know that they are not alone. ...
The novel Soldier Boy, written by Anthony Hill, involves the audience in the biographical story of the youngest ever ANZAC, Jim Martin. ... It also shows us that the soldiers were only human, they were not some super humans who couldn't feel pain. ... It shows the effects the conditions had on soldiers and that it wasn't common for strong, fit soldiers to waste away in the trenches at war. ... It makes us feel apart of it as we now have a better understanding of what soldiers endured in the hard times of war. ... Hill used many and varied writing techniques to engage the audie...
Henry Becomes A Man In the book The Red Badge of Courage, Henry changes in many ways as a soldier. ... Many important events shape Henry's evolution into a veteran soldier. ... Henry's next evolution occurs when he is running and gets hit by a fellow soldier's rifle. ... To finish, Henry goes through an entire cycle of evolution from a boy to a veteran soldier. ... He has gained courage from his follies and wisdom from his fellow soldiers. ...