Modern European History. Speaks of Paul Valery and what he meant by saying that Europe doubted itself profoundly

A common theme found in both articles is the negative perception many young veterans shared of the utilization of services, especially in the form

In the end, these brutalities faced by these soldiers had adverse effect on them, as they had to live with these horrors for the rest of their

Many soldiers who return from the war suffer for many years. During the war, soldiers go through many different experiences. I came from a small military family; from two grandfathers, to my step-father. My grandfather Vaughn Clark was in World War Two, and I was never

A lot of things happened to the soldiers during the war. Sometimes they would lose their eyes from poisonous gases that went through the trenches.

Prior to the war the young men did not have roots in the community, and after the war they have nothing to go back to. Remarque transmits the theme that the generation after the war feels foreign and uncomfortable in their environments with the motif of the lost generation.

The troops had little food, lick grass for water, had to bear the sight of other’s deaths, as well as live under the thought that they could

folk.” From the start of the war, these young men were robbed of their idealism, and

Each soldier went to the war with a distinctiveness about them, an identity, eventually this was lost as they went to boot camp.

Even though soldiers are able to distract themselves from the horrors that they witness on the front, war psychologically damages them and creates the “lost generation”. The young men find it increasingly difficult to think and act with the mindset of a civilian. In war, the men only experience despair, death, and fear, so their mind is enveloped by negative thoughts that

Courage is another thing that got veterans out the door. Maybe it was those little gaps of courage that lasted a while or at least a lot longer than anyone could have imagined. It may

A soldier that would fight in the 1860s had a really rough time with their lives once they joined the forces. They would be taken

Based on these interviews it seems the citizens on the American Homefront had decided to go to war because they respected president Roosevelt and trusted his decisions and felt the war was necessary. Edward Huddy from New York said, “the whole country is behind him” in reference to president Roosevelt after his speech which both Edward and Luis Andrew, also from New York city called a “fine speech”. The librarian from Minneapolis, Minnesota said “it has to be don’t” when talking about sending soldiers to war. The neighbors of the interviewer in Burlington, North Carolina said “we’ve got to win this war”. While the citizens in America seem to support the war to preserve their home lives and the regular peace of the nations it seems many of the servicemen may have decided to fight to change their home lives. John Jeffries says that many Americans only had “glimpses of the war”, all the horrors were censored out leaving just leaving war as a glorifying fight. Because of these many recruits likely decided to fight to come home a heroic symbol, receive personal gains, to have a better different future than the recent past they had lived in. Sadly “real” war wasn’t like what they had seen back home and the welcome back was sometimes the same shock. War was gruesome and cruel and upon return to America some veterans were “feared as disruptive

deteriorated the mental stability of these soldiers. They questioned the plans of the Americans and tried to

Soldiers lost their innocence the moment they stepped onto the battlefield. They become so numb to the horrors of the war, which no longer feel a sense of

After the Vietnam War, the use of chemical warfare caused many post-war issues for American veterans. Many veterans had a direct experience on homelessness due to the immediate consequence of American military policies. Psychological symptoms were apparent, when veterans had phobic avoidance to society. Diseases affected veterans health conditions by making their skin bare to infections. Through the wake of the chemical warfare in the Vietnam War,veterans could not substantiate the long term impacts given through combat.