A Soldier's Life Dbq

Valley Forge has turned into a graveyard. Thousands of soldiers lie sick or dead. The continental army has camped there for the winter, 18 miles away from the British in Philadelphia. My nine month enlistment is almost up, and I must make a choice: Should I re-enlist or go home to my aging mother? The decision has been very demanding. I have thought long and hard about this, and have come to a choice. I have decided to re-enlist for three reasons which are the fact that there are not many soldiers, to help others, and because I can do what others can’t to aid the cause.

I know that we have horrible conditions like no shoes and no meat, but I have decided to re-enlist for three reasons which are we have George Washington to help us, we have the right to fight, and we still have spirit even though we’ve been through hard times.My key idea is we have the right to fight because we shouldn’t be ruled by britain’s tyranny.If one soldier didn’t re-enlist all the soldiers might follow theur example.If we had no soldiers then we wouldn’t have one the war. That would mean we wouldn’t be free

I liked how things are already I thought as I was getting ready for bed to think about re-enlisting. Paine 153 says “Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right but “TO BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER,’ and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon Earth.” If we don’t win this war, our lives are going to be full with expensive government that rule without pity. “Tyranny, is like Hell, is not easily conquered , yet we have this consolation with us,” also said by Paine 153. You're worried about your aging mom and you miss you friends and family. If you quit and go back home, you get to live with taxes, tyranny, and fear. You and everyone you care about will be under this life. Far off, possibly unlikely, there is victory. The reason victory seems far, is because there are few soldiers that are fighting. I want to fight to make victory closer. This reason is pushing me to re-enlist because of what life would be back home. The choice to fight or not can will change on how you and the people you care about live. I fell asleep so sure of my

My third reason is I don’t want to die. I have an aging mother and a sick sister. I also miss home and hate to be away from them. There are high chances that I will die here and never make it home. So I need to leave and visit my family. I might die because of lack of food, we are eating fire cakes which are flour and water mixed together every meal. “No meat! No Meat!” one of the generals yelled “No Meat! No Meat!”( Document C ). We are all sick, no food, smoked out of our senses, little to NO clothing, nasty cookery, vomit all the time, and cold weather. I want to go home and leave this awful

The New York Times Bestseller We Were Soldiers Once... And Young was authored by Lt. General Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. In November 1965, Lt. Colonel Harold Moore commanded the 1st Battalion, 7th cavalry at the Ia Drang Valley-one of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam. He eventually retired from the Army in 1977 after thirty-two years of service. After his military career, Lieutenant General Moore resided as executive vice president for four years at a Colorado ski resort before founding a computer software company. Harold Moore currently lives in Auburn, Alabama and Crested Butte, Colorado.

I support the soldier’s refusal to fight without the required supplies. No one should be forced to defend their country without the right supplies, food, weapons, and armor needed to protect their own lives. I agree with the statement “peace or supplies... either the Government end the war or support the troops,” that the soldier says, because you cannot expect the army to fight a war when they aren’t being taken care of by their own country.

Being filmed the day my father was leaving the country for war was not ideal. Although, my father leaving for war was not a pleasant thought by itself. I grew up a military brat, meaning, the American dream was permanently painted on my heart since the day my dad signed away lazy days and long hair. I was in first grade the year that he deployed for Iraq. Living on a Military base, that was nothing out of the ordinary. It wasn’t until CNN shoved cameras in our tear-strung faces as he kissed us all goodbye that I realized that it was all real.

The men who fought in the “War to end all Wars” were some of the bravest men and women to serve the United States Armed Services. I have the honor of being related to one of those men. My great-great uncle served with the 73rd tank battalion, C Company that landed on Omaha beach June 6, 1944. I conducted an interview with my father who sat down with him to do a similar project. This is what I learned.

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John here, today we’re going to discuss soldiers. War was a difficult time for all of us, but now that it’s over, should soldiers be compensated for their years of service with a pension? Sickness and injury were common during the Great War. Between October 1914 and May 1915 at the No 1 Canadian General Hospital, there were 458 cases of influenza and 992 of gonorrhoea amongst officers and men. Some injury was not exactly ‘physical’, thousands of Canadian and non-Canadian soldiers alike suffer from ‘Shell-shock’. Doctors describe shellshock as “nervous or mental shock.” Veterans are still being treated for shell-shock today, years after the end of the Great War. Currently, Veterans are not receiving steady pensions, or medical benefits. It is also very hard for veterans to find

Today marks the 60th anniversary of me being stuck in this cave. I’ve gone 60 years without food and water; I should be dead. The monster inside me is somehow preserving my body. I don’t want to live forever; I wish I didn’t sacrifice myself for her. I can hear the outside world going on about their day as if nothing happened. I can tell today is sunny and about 80 degrees, but I do not know for sure since I am trapped underground. I can hear the footsteps of small children above me. One girl, I believe her name is Courtney, is yelling to her sister, Natasha to help her move the boulder that keeps me trapped down here. I hear a loud bang and sunlight from the outside world rushes into my underground world. The heat from the rays fill the room

Your key challenge in a leadership position is taking care of the Soldiers entrusted to your care. Soldiers are our nation’s most important military asset. The Leader who sends the message that Soldiers don’t really matter will generally not be as successful in the long-run as the Leader who is genuinely serious about taking care of his/her Soldiers.

Life is a never-ending cycle of fortune and tragedy, and no matter what, it always seems there is a camera to capture these moments. Birthdays, weddings, or marriage proposals are more often than not seen through the lens of a camera, just like disasters, funerals, and crises. Humans seem to thrive off of exciting and powerful moments whether they are positive or negative. As a result, the media tries to capture these moments in articles, because they know these types of articles sell. Unfortunately, in the 21st century, the media seems to focus more often on the negative aspects of life instead of the positive ones. This results in the media capturing photos of some of the saddest moments in people’s lives and using them to sell more physical

The life of a child soldier is not an easy one; it’s full of violence and bloodshed. Children from most ages get recruited and are forced to do things that they are against, things that are against their beliefs. But although child soldiers suffer through many mental disorders, they can still be respectable adults. They go through many things, the recruiting itself, then the violence, after comes the horrifying rehabilitation and last they are finally reintegrated into society. In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael suffered from these things, himself explaining that at some point in his life, he just went numb to everything (Beah 121).

As a soldier we have certain duties, responsibilities, and most have some level of authority. We should know what these are and how they apply to our everyday life in the military. It is one of my obligations as a soldier to carry out my duties to standard and to the best of my abilities. It is my job to bear my responsibilities knowing that I am a part of a team that works when its members work and perform their duties together. Duties are general requirements to be performed. As a soldier, I have a moral, and legal duty to obey the lawful orders of my leaders. I also have a moral obligation to perform all of my duties in a military manner, as it is brought about in many different ways including The Soldiers Creed, which describes our way of life as soldiers. As a junior enlisted soldier I am the work dog, or where the rubber meets the road when it comes to duties being performed. As a junior enlisted soldier I am also required to perform all my duties to standard and to the best I can perform them. This means performing individual tasks given to me by my first line supervisor. There are different types of duty’s you can come across in the military, and as a soldier. As a soldier we are held to a high standards of professionalism, whether we are on and off duty. It is our Duty to make sure we withhold that sense of professionalism all the time. We have our Specified duties which are those related to our job positions or our MOS. We have Directed duties which are not a part