Sargent Andrew Ford

4. What was the consolation of a ‘million dollar wound’ to a solider on duty?

The rambunctious behavior of the soldier’s triumphant victory is a strong message visually for the viewer. These soldiers struggle to find their identity and once the war ends, the identity they’ve build at war vanishes, (McCutcheon, 2007). As a result, they essentially lose a part of them selves, (McCutcheon, 2007). When they return home, many soldiers struggle with psychological issues that prevent them from resuming their once regular lives, (McCutcheon, 2007). The images of soldiers celebrating at the end of war give the viewer a taste of this problem. This also allows the viewer insight to the deeper issues surrounding an American soldier’s mental stability and mentality. Through this image, along with many others throughout the film, the viewer is able to dig deeper and truly analyze what they are seeing.

Throughout the story of this one deployment, there are parts where the author talks about his early life as well as some parts of his earlier days in the Army. The author puts these Stories in to the book in an intriguing way to help explain why and how the author ended up where he did.

For countless of people today, the Vietnam war is just something from the past, but for Tim O’Brien, the Vietnam War will endlessly be with him. This one year in Vietnam changes the lives of this platoon from emotional pain, physical pain, as well as muscle pain will commence to cloud their vision. The weight of the things that they carried takes great effect on them that they have to continue to endure on this one year trip in Vietnam and remember these memories for the rest of their lives..

O 'Brien illustrates to us the necessity for each man to be connected to their old life, telling a story of Mark Fossie flying in his girlfriend to ease his loneliness (104-05). Each soldier found himself facing insurmountable barriers throughout the war, and these small effects and coping mechanisms were often the only necessity that would give them reason to return home again. They needed personal methods of coping with the war, and this primeval survival was the only way to remain a man.

Tim O’Brien has shown repeatedly in this story that grief is the one thing that is the hardest to carry for any person. It stays with you and will sometimes cause you even more grief. This story shines a very bright light on what was happening to the soldier when they are not in combat, and how their very emotions can eat away with them. “It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do” (482), you can see through these final thoughts of Jimmy’s that he truly thinks that there is no way for any of them to let go of the emotions that they must carry every

I was married at age 22 to was a United States Captain. His name was Captain Edward Bissel Hunt. I loved him very much. Together we had two sons. But my story is a sad one. One of my sons died as an infant in the year 1854 of a brain disease. In 1863, my beloved husband died in a military accident. Two years later, my second, Rennie, died of diphtheria. I was left alone.

Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is a platoon leader in Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried.” In the story, Lt. Cross is distracted with thoughts of a college student back in the States and has to deal with the guilt that he feels when one of his men is killed while he is daydreaming about the student. War is a traumatic experience for soldiers and the story draws attention to what goes on inside the mind of soldiers in combat who put their lives on the line for their country.

The author experienced the culture shock all new recruits receive during their initial basic training. James’s physical conditioning prior to enlisting into the Army proved to be a valuable asset, due to the physically demanding rigors associated with military training. The author’s physical presence and life experiences equated to admiration from the younger recruits. Affectionate memories were made teaching the younger recruits exercises and submission holds during down time from training. It was at this point in the author’s life that he knew he wanted a profession in which he could help others. Upon completion of Basic Training, and Advanced Individual training, James saw his parents again, whom he had not seen in several years. The author was pleased to see his ever loving mother who was radiating in pride of her son’s life journey thus far. The author’s father stated that it was about time his son had done something worth meaning. During James’s adolescence this comment may have

In Tim Obrien’s text, Where have You Gone, Charming Billy?, the fear and turmoil caused by war are explored through the eyes of Private First Class Paul Berlin. Throughout his first day in Vietnam Paul encounters tense and fearful moments, but the experience that most affects him is the death of fellow soldier Billy Boy Watkins, who stepped on a land mine, lost his leg, and proceeded to succumb to his own fear and panic, ultimately dying from a shock induced heart attack. This event deeply affects Paul who feels unprepared for the reality of war. Throughout the text chronicling his first day at war, Paul Tries to conquer his fear but despite small victories he never succeeds in being unafraid.

Sergeant First Class, Andi Richards returns home to Chicago, Illinois after serving over two years in Iraq. Andi comes home to lay his mother down for the last time after dying from a very aggressive form of cancer. Andi kept thinking he would have be there for his mother if he didn’t re-up his contract to serve his country. Andi asked himself at her funeral “Why didn’t I come home six months ago when I knew things were getting bad?” Andi’s older brother, Patrick who is a Marine told him “It’s not your fault. She wanted you to do what you were best at.”

In Phil Klay’s short story, “Redeployment” the reader is introduced to a, “dog person” who after a tour in Iraq, is adjusting to life back on US soil. This whole story in itself speaks upon a topic in which most people are not used to hearing that is the soldier’s return home rather than the fighting on the battlefield after losing his best friend was KIA. Klay allows the reader to see the thoughts of a man who a week ago was on guard at every moment, for if he was not then one of his men or himself would be dead, return to a life of sitting at home with his dog, watching tv, and going shopping with his wife. The simple yet powerful statement of , “Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning.” (Klay, 2014, p. 9), shows how much this man has just gone through. I mean after living in fear every single day for almost a year, to being back at home as if nothing has happened is unimaginable. He then goes on to express how can he walk around an area to go shopping around people who have lived their lives at white (safety) and have no idea what it is like to be at orange, full of fire fights, explosions, and death all around you. Then he goes on to kill his sick dog because he would rather do it than paying some doctor to do it instead. In being the hell he has been in after losing his best friend in Iraq then having to lose “man’s best friend” back at home one can fathom the pain the man is feeling. By the end of the story as a reader there is no

For many veterans returning home from their service in the military, their first struggle they encounter is usually the emotional stress they carry from their experiences at war. In the early 1900’s the difficulties these returning soldiers possessed were not being recognized as something family, friends, and doctors needed to worry about. Although all soldiers share different stories about their hardships, most veterans could agree that it was tough to settle back into their previous home as quick as their hometown expected them to. Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” and Saunders “Home” both tell a story of a veteran returning home from war and describes how the character reacted to coming back home.

When people think of the military, they often think about the time they spend over in another country, hoping they make it back alive. No one has ever considered the possibility that they may have died inside. Soldiers are reborn through war, often seeing through the eyes of someone else. In “Soldier’s home” by Ernest Hemingway, the author illustrates how a person who has been through war can change dramatically if enough time has passed. This story tells of a man named Harold (nick name: Krebs) who joined the marines and has finally come back after two years. Krebs is a lost man who feels it’s too complicated to adjust to the normal way of living and is pressured by his parents.

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