The historical fiction book Vietnam: Walking Wounded by Chris Lynch follows the story of four friends who enlisted into different branches of the military to fight in the Vietnam War. The book follows the characters from the first four books but puts them all into one. The story follows after Rudi one of the four friends, is killed in battle and the story starts as Beck carries him to base. When Beck delivers the body to base Morris, another one of the friends, takes the job of escorting him home. The rest of the story follows as he makes stops around the world to take other fallen soldiers back home.…
I am staying at the hospital in London; I have a really bad case of trench foot. Trench foot is from being in the cold wet trenches where it is most of the time spent in knee deep muddy water. The things I have seen are some terrifying things that went on in the Battle of Pozieres that will stay with me for ever. I was part of the 10 battalion along with a lot of other boys from back home in South Australia. We arrived in Pozieres in July 1916 after we had fought in Gallipoli, it was terrible there were people dying and getting wounded everywhere.…
Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering: Death and The American Civil War is an ambitious and thought provoking read. Faust tackles a subject that has not been widely written about: the “death ways” of the American Civil War generation.2 Faust divides her study of the newly transformed ars moriendi into nine areas in the chapters that follow her preface entitled the Work of Death. The actual process of an individual soldier’s death is explained in Dying.…
12 September, 1917 As I write this, the enemy is shelling the trench I’m sitting in. The enemy has been shelling us sporadically for the past several days. The enemy will shell us for several hours, then stop and then resume the shelling later. Heavy shelling has left the area surrounding the trench pock marked with craters.…
Officers earn around $1000 per month, which is relatively consistent, except for reduced wages during times of gang wars. Being an officer is similar to a full-time job, they are unable to be also be employed by the legitimate sector, and the standard of living for these jobs is slightly higher than a full-time minimum wage job. The foot soldiers receive a flat wage, their earnings are not directly linked to the volume of their sales but the number of shifts they work and their position within the drug selling team. These wages are very low, around $200 a month, or less until the final year of the study. Based on these estimates, the wages of a foot soldiers are well below the federal minimum wage.…
My Dearest Nancy, I am writing to you from the trenches in my “dug-out”. It is cold and wet. Winter has not been kind to us out on the Western Front. Many of our chaps have gotten what they call “trench foot”. A nasty disease where your feet turn blue and swell up – even go numb.…
I hope this letter finds you and the rest of the family in good health. My parents and I are doing well, but we continue to worry and pray for our friends and neighbors who are either serving in the Union or have loved ones who are serving. My friend James was considering enlisting as a private in the New Jersey regiment, but a letter from his friend, George B. Wright urging him not to enlist has James reconsidering his decision. In the letter, George talks of the fatigue, and in his words, “your health would break down before you had been in service a month” (Lurie pg. 160).…
To Taehyung, You left yesterday so suddenly, in a whirl of tears and stuffed duffel bags. I love you's and see you soon's. They asked for the oldest boy in their family, but they forgot mine.…
President Andrew Jackson spoke in a very careless tone. It was almost as if Andrew Jackson didn’t even feel the slightest bit of sympathy for the Cherokees. President Andrew Jackson clearly stated, “My Friends, Circumstances render it impossible that you can flourish in the midst of a civilized community.” This statement shows us that President Andrew Jackson didn’t care about what the Cherokees had to go through. He only cared about the benefits that would be given to the Americans once all of the Cherokees left.…
In Afghanistan war, Phil Williams’ poem “Reality in Afghanistan” , the author describes that he felt really bad for the soldier’s parents in which their sons will never come back home after their military service. In other words, parents are promised that their son will come back safe and sound at home after their military service even if there are chances that they do not come back. Also, Alex Cockers, a Royal Marine Commando from 2005-2009 explain in his poem “Tom” how much he miss his friend Tom by saying : “ ’ll remember Tom forever. And raise a glass in his name. A soldier to the death.…
I miss you and the others at home awfully, but the tedious past two years of battle have been in our favor, so at least my absence has been of some aid to the Confederacy. Life back at the plantation seems like a dream when you live as a soldier. Working on the vile-smelling fields with our slaves for hours upon hours will always appeal more to me than the copious hours of marching and drilling the generals put us through; the aching of my feet after every practice burns more than my throbbing fingers ever did. All of the pain endured because of my service cannot compare to the agony of being away from home so long. Calling what I feel “homesickness” would be a complete understatement.…
Husband, I am thinking of you every moment of the day. It is difficult to imagine that someone I love so much has been at war for this long. These past three years have been hard on our daughter and I. The higher authorities are being very difficult, newspapers are publishing information and propaganda is everywhere. The posters make it seem as if it is mandatory to go to war and if you enlist you are not a man but a coward.…
I am sincerely sorry, for not writing to you for a very long time now. I bring terrible new. Things have not been well, my mom is very sick. She gets worse everyday, I blame the Americans for this. If the Americans never forced us to move then less people would have died.…
Trench Life Trenches in world war one (1914-1918) are one of the most important places on the battle field. It is also the most dangerous. Living conditions were tough, and knowing that any minute could be your last, defiantly made an effect on the soldier’s mental state, causing them to be left with “Shell Shock”. In this essay I will explain how the trenches were used in warfare, the impact it made on the soldiers physical and mental health, the harsh conditions these trenches implied to these soldiers life and attitudes towards the trenches. Trenches were long, narrow ditches dug into the ground where soldiers lived all day and night.…
I just want to go home. Tweet 5: My commanding officer has brought me out of the trenches and directed me to the men who run tanks. All of this is new to me, but I will…