A Happy Ending Short Story

No one can ever understand a soldier’s experience as they return home from war. On the battle field, they experience tremendous loss. They have returned from a terrible situation and often have difficulties reintegrating into society. Ordinary situations can be a challenge, and family members cannot understand what soldiers have endured. In the short story, “Soldier’s Home”, by Ernest Hemingway, a young man, Krebs, has returned home from war. He returned home to Oklahoma and looks for a simple life. He avoids talking about the war, but the war changed him to be distant and outcast. In, “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway, the events of the war have caused Krebs to distance himself from society. He has distanced

We were all scared. My grandpa, dad and I running straight into the track. The only thought there was in my mind was, he isn 't okay. Making sure that he turns over and lays on his back as someone calls 911, I left to go get the cart from the trailer. As I left the track to get it, I start crying, fearing the worst. I run back the track and have my dad help me put the car on the trailer cart and pull it back to the trailer and run back to my uncle. As I got back to my uncle, he was talking some intolerable words. After a few minuets, I heard my name from him.

The scenes in New York City of soldiers returning from World War II have been remembered for decades. The huge parades, the confetti flying through the streets, and couples embracing were reflective of the gratitude the country encompassed for soldiers returning from World War II (Crowe, Pervis et al.). The country as a whole was very appreciative of the services of these soldiers. Laif Maseng, a World War II veteran said that his return from World War II was not quite like the vibrant scenes in New York (Maseng) “For me, it was more of a ‘we’re glad you’re home safe, now go get a

When I was four, my father was deployed to Afghanistan. In Virginia, he left my mother, my elder brother, myself, and my newborn brother. I still remember the day he came home, running to him in the airport along my elder brother, and clinging to my father for dear life. I didn’t understand why he had left; I spent many years in ignorance to the 9/11 attacks, or the reason for why my father was away. It was very frightening, because when your parent is taken away to a country that you can’t even pronounce the name of, and fighting a group so horrible that no one was willing to tell a four year old girl who they were, you become depressed and angry. One day, many years later, I was driving with my father in his small, broken, Volkswagen Beetle,

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt once wrote in a letter to President Harry Truman that, “No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.” As civilians it is hard for us to imagine the unspeakable horrors that soldiers face while on the battlefield. It is equally hard to understand how they come back home so very different than the men and women we saw off at the airport all those years ago. Many soldiers have said that they went to war as a boy and came back without a mind; even though they ‘won the war’, the costs outweighed the benefits because they have to carry all of the things they did in the war zone with them the rest of their lives. In The Things They Carried, Vietnam veteran Tim O’Brien repeatedly says that he has an intense need to write down the stories of his oversees experiences even though the memories are too painful to think about. With that in mind, this essay seeks to answer the questions: Does writing about their experience help soldiers cope? What about Tim O’Brien; does writing about his experiences seem to give him any sort of relief at all?

Relocating from Florida back to Arizona was quite the journey. We went through terrible weather changes and and other dreadful like things on the trip. On the day we took off to board the greyhound we found out that the train had been experiencing some difficulties performing like the rest of them, but we had been told that the problems were fixed and that we shouldn't be worried. So we trusted in this man and what he had told us and i see now that was a big mistake, so we boarded the train took off our bags and we were all excited and could'nt wait to get back to see granny the rest of the family. Finally the train took off and the journey began I took a seat and felt relieved and calm but at the same time I felt uneasy and i just couldn't

War is an experience that is difficult to understand and describe. Imagine coming back from war and not having the love, comfort, or support from your loved ones to help you move on with your life. How would one feel in that situation? According to the way Tim O’Brien told the stories of the soldiers in The Things They Carried, they either knew how to cope or didn’t.

Although Bob Layher was only five years old when the war began he noticed the considerable impact the battle had already inflicted. Bob recalled, “Brothers and sisters to friends I knew either came back or never made it back.” Ronnie WIlliams, a helicopter door gunner, never returned to spend time with the people, including Bob, he once shared a classroom with as an innocent boy. Reminiscing on the tragic past

At the end, women would return home individually, with no grand welcome awaiting them. Many of these women had experienced the terrors and trauma of the war, and had to find a way to adjust with these awful horrible memories while finding their place back in a normal life. Many felt the best way to deal with this was to fade away into isolation, found it difficult to speak to family and friends, felt anger and had

Many of the men who returned from the war were suffering from serious injuries and the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and shell-shock. They were too tormented to communicate their experiences and involvements, and took them a long time to recover from the distress. Letters were received from soldiers back home, with families left wondering if this will be the last; ‘Dear Mrs Mack, I am writing to tell you of the death of your son Cpl F J Mack. He was brought in here quite early on Monday morning, wounded in the abdomen. Everything possible was done for him and during the day he seemed to maintain his strength, but towards evening he grew weaker/ died about 8.30pm.

I have family who fought in wars and some of the didn't return. For instance my grandfather was in World War Two he came how well and healthy but, my distant cousin didn't come home. He was in Vietnam and his plane got shot down and crashed he survived with

This chapter was bitter sweet. It was good that the country was rebuilding after the disaster left by World War II and that families could return; the heartbreaking part was that the families were returning missing

My grandfather’s story was an amazing one. While he talked he spoke about so much passion the soldiers had fighting in the war. He told the story how the one day he had to go out into battle. The United States troops fought in the horrible plains, and tangled, unbearable woods. They walked through swamps, and lived in horrible conditions. My grandpa said that being on the field there was an almost seventy percent chance of being killed. The living conditions were so bad than many of the soldiers died along the way while moving locations.

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People all over America will be celebrating our veterans for their service on November 11th. There will be numerous celebrations and thanks for the people who fought for our freedom, but often we forget what it was like coming home from a war. Coming back from the war and reassimilating into society can often times be just as challenging as fighting the war itself. There are so many factors that affect one’s homecoming experience, such as the supportiveness of the community or the trauma caused by the war. Everybody is different which means everybody’s experiences are going to differ. Leaving your home is definitely a difficult feat, and coming back is possibly even harder for some veterans.