A soldier's point of view
Have you ever thought that we Americans do not take as much advantage of the luxuries we have unlike the men that goes into a war that do not have as many luxuries as we do? Not many people ask this question to themselves because they are so focused with their own lives and not the lives of others. They do not understand the sacrifice that a soldier is taking in order to fight for our country. We as Americans do not realize what the men in war are going through and the hardships they have to face while fighting in the war. In Sebastian Junger’s third book War, he has witnessed and described what US military soldiers are going through while fighting in the Korengal Valley. He describes in his book the mental stabilities of a soldier and the environment they have to live in for a year. From a third person point of view, it seems like Junger is trying to tell us something. I believe that he is trying to tell us that Americans do not take advantage of their luxuries unlike the soldiers in the Korengal Valley. In the book, it states that they are getting shot at every minute of every day, they do not have the same luxuries as we do in America, and they have very little contact with their loved ones back at home.
In Junger’s third book, he describes the soldiers’ living conditions while staying at the KOP. He tells us that the soldiers do not have as much running water that they want to use. They can only use a certain amount of water that is needed for each soldier. Half the time they don’t take showers at all because they know it is not enough water to fulfill their needs. Junger tells us that during the summer were the most dreadful time for the soldiers. He says that during that time the men would get really lazy. They would sleep as late as they can and come out of their fly infested hooches by mid-morning. There was not even cooked food