Review Of ' Rex Denson '

He said he became depressed. He would stay home, not wanting to be ridiculed for his service. He said he suffered from nightmares about the months he had spent in the

     In January 1973 his unit was sent back to Fort Knox, KY and with the move, his military career seem to disappear. Also with the move, he had a spiritual rebirth, and began attending services at Beth Haven Baptist Church in Louisville and soon changed from a Jew to a Christian.

sisters, was raised in Cheyenne Wyoming by his grandparents. After graduating he followed his grandfather's path into working on the railroads. In 1941, He used to work on the railroads until he grew tired of that life and enlisted in the military that June and he was assigned to the segregated 270th Regiment of the 92nd Infantry Division.

Not every man who 's fought in a war planned on doing so. In fact, not all of them even want to. It 's rare to find enough people voluntarily willing to lay down their lives for their country, so more often than not militaries used what we would call “citizen soldiers.” Citizen soldiers are exactly what they sound like, regular citizens taken from society and turned into people capable of serving in the military. Although it may seem obvious when plainly written out, citizen soldiers had vastly different experiences compared to career soldiers, and Stephen Ambrose attempted to pin down that specific experience in his book Citizen Soldier. Ambrose uses oral interviews from World War II veterans and other materials to explain the experiences of the common American soldier who served in WWII between D-Day and the eventual surrender of the German forces. However, when examining his book, it 's important to ask how successful Ambrose was in painting an accurate picture of this kind of soldier 's life during his service. Is the information he uses specific to the men who served in Europe, or can it also be linked back to the soldiers in the Pacific? This paper will evaluate his work by comparing it to oral interviews from WWII veterans both from the same areas that Ambrose 's veterans serve in and in locations not included in his work.

As predicted by HR, the first man to make our list without ever playing in purple is Baltimore Colts Defensive End, number 89 Gino "The Giant" Marchetti. I never got to see Gino play live. He retired nearly 18 years before I was born. Everything I know about him I know from my father, who talks about Gino the way people my age talk about superheros.

He was honourably discharged as a sergeant. After he got back home he went to college, where in his senior year he met a girl named Myrlie Beasley whom he married and together they had three children. For a long time in the United States

At age 14, he was skillfully repairing automobiles and motorbikes. Although he never went to a trade school, he astutely learned all aspects of house building. As a young man, he mastered brick laying, plumbing, flooring, masonry and roofing. There was little that he could not make operational including trains, automobiles, air conditioners, washing machines, elevators, televisions, radios, watches, heaters, and telephones. In 1956 - 1960, in the army, he served his country and he was promoted to military police officer. He was stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Fort Knox, Kentucky and Fort Belvior,

During World War II, children, women and families worked tirelessly and contributed to aiding the soldiers during their perilous fights. In 1939 through 1945, American families came together and as a community to work the hardest they ever have. Families helped one another to hold up their country with the absence of their men. “Wear it out, use it up, make it do, or do without.” (qtd. In FDR and The American Crisis), were words stressed to the women and children for support. The sacrifices the families made on the homefront, became just as paramount as the battlefronts. If the choices that were made didn’t prevail, the success of the war wouldn’t have ensued.

The decision to go to war is not a decision that is taken lightly. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien faces cultural, social and political push factors that end up leading him to forgo his plan to dodge the draft, and to report as instructed, a mere yards away from his destination of Canada. In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, Rocky and Tayo, two young Native American men, experience cultural, social and political pull factors that draw them into the Army, fighting the Second World War for a country that considers them less than human. The stories of these characters are not unique, they are stories that are representative of the stories of young American men at the time, that faced cultural, social, and political push and pull factors during both conflicts. The purpose of this inquiry essay is to determine what those push and pull factors were, and why they lead these men to willingly engage in two of the most destructive conflicts in human history.

After studying for two years at Indiana University, he returned home and enlisted as a flying cadet. Washing out of flight school, he was discharged from the Army Air Force (AAF) but re-enlisted in May of 1941 as an aviation cadet. He trained to be a bombardier at Barksdale, Louisiana, receiving his commission as a second lieutenant on December 16, 1941.

Bill talked about the conflict as “Johnson’s War”, sharing the whispers he heard at when at basic training. He talked about how he had heard that the war was going well until 1967, when the opinions of the Americans had changed. 1967 would see some of the most memorable protesting of the war, with the famous Washington march. During the Washington march, over 300,000 people took part in an anti-war march, involving many veterans of the war. These veterans voiced their opinions by throwing away their medals and uniforms, some even throwing their medals on the steps of the capital building. Bill said he remembered the news of this march very vividly. I almost wish he had been more explicit, but after discussing his entrance his basic training, Bill hardly said anything about where he was stationed or what he was doing at all. After training, he said that he was stationed in Boston on the “Evergreen” US Cutter. He worked on this ship for 8 months and spent the rest of his time in Connecticut working as a technician at a hospital. I attempted to ask politely for more information, but he asked that I try to focus on his post-war experience instead. He began to lighten up when he started talking about getting out of the Navy. Arriving back home, he decided to marry his girlfriend and return to school, enrolling at Clarion University in the fall of 1967. The real story for Bill wasn’t about what he did for the war, but what the war did for him. Though the GI bill, Bill was able to earn a degree in Chemistry and began working as a lab technician while his wife worked part time as a nurse and began raising their first child. After a few years, Bill quit his job

captured and taken as a POW. This book covers his time in the military before

 In 1957 he found a job at Avondale ship yard as a welder, until he was drafted by Uncle Sam to Germany in 1958 where he remained for two years. The

joined the army in 1915 after a frustrating career in the post office. His mother died

He was also promoted to the rank of captain. He then stayed with his family until the end of the war.