In the novel "The Things They Carried," by Tim O' Brien explains the difficulties and horrific scenes that each individual, mostly soldiers, had to experience in The Vietnam War. They present to the audience their challenges and also how they overcame them by including "the things they carried." The character Kiowa carried many things throughout his journey, in which many believed they did not belong in, such as his bible and his faith. Kiowa's most significant physical object that he carried
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It’s Not Just Physical: The Things They Carried Through Vietnam Soldiers of the Vietnam War marched miles and miles through the humid broiling forests of Vietnam. So the question every soldier asks themselves is, to hump or not to hump, though maybe not in those exact words. As Tim O’Brien so eloquently puts it in his novel, The Things They Carried, “To carry something was to hump it” (O’Brien 3). Already carrying twelve to eighteen pounds of necessities, an item must be of great significance for
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Each sub-group is affected differently. Dependents and parents of military members may not come directly in contact with combat but they too suffer from deployments. Military children are placed in some very unique challenges. They have a significant amount of stressors including; parental separation due to deployment, family reunification, frequent moves causing educational and friendship disruption. Most military children are resilient but those who have pre-existing issues may have some difficulty
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Juan Gutierrez was born in Monterey Mexico on June 2, 1968. He went to high school at PSJA (Bears) and graduated in 1988. When he was only eighteen years old he signed up for the military, but before he could go into the military he had to take a test called the azimuth test. He ended up passing with a really high score and that’s what made become a technical surgeon because of how high of a score he made. I asked Mr. Gutierrez what made him go into the military and he said “I wanted to join the
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In A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah, family can be circumstantial rather than genetic, they are the people who stand by you, and push you through difficult times. Family can be circumstantial rather than genetic. This theme is especially apparent in this novel. Throughout the book, there are several characters who support Ishmael and become his family. From the six boys whom he meets in a passing village, to the nurse at the rehabilitation center. During the war, Ishmael’s
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presented with the choice of staying for another term of duty in the Continental Army or going back home to my sick and aging mother, I would choose going back home. I would decide to leave Valley Forge because I have already served my country and my family must always come first. The army is also suffering. There are men without shoes, food, and shelter. This so called “army” is not fit to fight in this war. How does this army plan to win the war if their troops can not even survive the winter? My mother
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One way Tim O’Brien expresses the fear of showing weakness is through himself, when he decides to go to war because he is embarrassed to be talked about. Tim is afraid of what the people in his town will say about him if he runs away to Canada to avoid the draft. Tim is not the only one who feels this way; he thinks, "It was what brought [the soldiers] to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor”(O’Brien 21). It is interpreted
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The issue of toxic leadership throughout the Army is very real and extremely important. LTG Ulmer’s paper addresses regular Army leaders in general, however this problem also exists in Special Operations community and is harder to combat and identify. This is largely due to the fact that Special Forces (SF) leader, specifically SF officer, posses all the traits that LTG Ulmer identifies as possible toxic leader traits and indicators. For example, LTG Ulmer mentions that most of Army’s toxic leaders
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This story made me think about the things returning soldiers have to deal with. It also made me think about the transition they go through. They have to go from the mindset of war to the civilian world. The transition is a big overwhelming change. Many soldiers come back detached from the world. Many never get the help they need although and can not completely recover from the things they have seen and done. When someone has PTSD it seems as though many are lonely and not sure of their place in this
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Introduction Stephen Van Evera’s description of the ‘cult of the offensive’ among general staffs in the First World War has been a regular part of discourse about the war since his article’s publication in 1984. Popular accounts of the war depict bloody and foolish generals pushing their states toward war without realizing the costs and dangers of the conflict; many of these portrayals rely to an extent on Van Evera’s descriptions of German, Russian, and French illusions about the balance of offense
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