George Espinoza Influence On War

This is the story of a fellow Vietnam War supporter who actually volunteered its entrance in war. This man named George Espinoza, but I call him Mr. Espinoza because he was one of the well know substitutes in my high school. He is aged 65 and works as a substitute for local high schools in the SAISD district. He was born in San Antonio and during the Vietnam war he worked for support services in Okinawa. During his time being stationed there, as was mentioned he was in Okinawa, and had refugees that were from Cambodia. These refugees were being sent to California. Although, he was not really in war and had no effect, he did hear and see several fatal actions he did not agree with. He volunteered in 1974, aged 24, right when war was about to end but not really. When he and his brother first signed up he didn’t really know if they would be sent at all. Then of course they did, and were …show more content…
Due to that reason it affect his life perspective: "This was a political war, fighting for something without benefiting from it" (Espinoza). It was during this point he felt against war even though he volunteered. Mr. Espinoza felt this should not have happened and the U.S. should not have intervene because it led to so many deaths. He condemns such actions because “some Vietnamese could have been catholic or protestant; it was catholic killing catholic, and protestant killing protestant” (Espinoza). He felt so lucky not to be one of the killers because if he was, it would have stayed in his conscious and would have felt so guilty. Espinoza also felt such hatred towards war itself because his brother joined the war. Rather the brother did go into actual fighting and was affected, as Mr. Espinosa said, “ He is not all in his five senses now.” Overall it just took his viewpoint and flipped it around, and just felt sorry for all those lives being sacrificed: “ you cannot have the right to kill other humans,