The Tragedy Of Lieutenant Dan

They carried their reputations. They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory and dishonor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor (O’Brien P. 369).

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Reaching the age of 50, Dan has faced many obstacles in his life. One of the hardest things that he has faced was seeing his first born daughter born with a physical disability. It was something he never thought would happen to him. He and his wife spent many days in the hospital not knowing what was going to happen to his child. Dan ended up overcoming this, he says “with help from my family, my wife, and the Lord.”

"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing."(20) The novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien is collection of war story that focuses around his life and relationships with people in the Vietnam War, especially the part people usually choose not to focus on: The burden, the guilt and the regret. In the war stories it is forgotten that soldiers that fought in those wars are real people that had to deal with the consequences of their actions. O'Brien integrates this into the book by making Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, the highest ranking soldier in their group, the scapegoat.

Like Celie, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross continues to struggle with his past. Despite Jimmy’s emotions hindering his judgement and his ability to stay focused, Lieutenant Cross is still a strong soldier because he is enduring the phycological weight of war. . It takes a strong man to be actively fighting a war for his country. However, being madly in love with his crush Martha is negatively affecting his ability to lead his battalion of men in the Vietnam. Cross’ love for Martha made him feel “paralyzed.” (302) Because of Lieutenant Jimmy’s mentally emotional love, he is not able to physically lead. Lieutenant Cross’s lack of attentiveness results in Ted Lavender a soldier in cross platoon to die. Soldiers see the dead and wounded members of allies,

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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.

Tim O'Brien's “The Things They carried” is a story which is about the physical and emotional weight that a soldier carries during a war. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is the main character of the story who is a weak soldier who does not want to be in the war, however, he could not withdraw because soldiers were needed to fight the war. Throughout the whole story, Jimmy remembered a girl named Martha, whom he desired to be his girlfriend. In the other hand, because of the remembering Martha, some good and many bad things happened during the war. While Jimmy Cross's love for Martha brought his respite for the war and ultimately proved to be harmful to him, his men and his ability to be an effective leader.

He couldn't believe all of this was happening. Mars was under attack as he watched the Devastators bombing the capital city of the Red Planet from his desktop. Kevin Wilson Ford didn't want this day to come, where he was leaving behind Earth rather than staying with his family. They are currently inside the White House in Washington DC, where the President offered shelter to the citizens before they came to Earth. His mother, father, one brother, and five sisters were together inside the White House as the world was ending and that made Kevin cried. He had been into the White House before, working as an ambassador does often need to be inside the White House, and it was one of the

In “The Things They Carried” by Tim Obrien, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is both a sympathetic and frustrating character. Obrien develops his character by first describing what the man carries with him, because this is the key to the true heart of the soldier. They don’t carry useless things without reason. For Lt. Cross, the extra things he carries include letters from the girl he loves and later, a pebble she sent. While Cross loves Martha, it is a typical unrequited love tale, but with the backdrop of war.

Of all the leaders to research, whom I have discovered to be the most fitting for this assignment and inspirational in leadership style, comes out of the second section of the book WAR titled Killing by Sebastian Junger. This section of the book focuses a lot on the Commander of Battle Company Captain Dan Kearney and his leadership attributes as the Company Commander. It is actually in the first section of the book Fear did I first appreciate this Commander and why Junger makes mention of his battlefield decisions throughout the book. Although the book does a great job at portraying Kearney’s attributes, it is in the movie Restrepo where I was able to best appreciate his leadership attributes through the live

The Vietnam War was seen by all as horrible and by many, senseless. War has the ability to change people, countries, and even the harmony of the planet. After the Vietnam War’s end, many Americans didn’t want to hear or speak about the war. Many of the citizens in America wanted to forget it ever occurred. The United States had lost their invincibility to their negligence; the nation believed it could do anything. They especially thought they could end the war quickly in Vietnam and stop the spread of communism. The United States had joined the Vietnam War with hopes of becoming an alliance with France. This alliance would help turn the tide easily for them on what they thought was a naïve,

Furthermore, according to Boyer and Nissenbaum, “it [was] clear that the girls themselves did not actually know most of the people they named.” This brings out the possibility that the trails were biased towards certain people. For example, in the case of Captain Alden, most of the afflicted girls were unable to recognize him until “a man standing behind one of the [girls] whispered into her ear.” In this case the girls were clueless on who Alden was until somebody identified him. Interestingly enough, when the girl’s interrogator asked her how she was able to identify Alden she claimed that, “the man told her so.” This account helps to show how some people could had an influence on the outcome of the trials. When a victim couldn 't identify the specter, people around would them bombard the victim with names. Some accounts also seem to suggest that Samuel Parris and his supporters terrorized villagers and even had some controlled over the trials. Considering that his two daughter were among the first to become “bewitch” it would make sense for Samuel Parris to take advantage of situation to get certain people out of the way.

In World War 2 over 65 million people lost their lives. The emotional toll on the families of the lost soldiers soon followed. Throughout World War 2 we gained many allies, but because of all the destruction that the was caused, for example, peoples homes and all their precious materials being stolen or destroyed, we lost a vast majority of those them. The taking of so many lives and destroying of countries can cause a lot of hate on the nations that inflicted this destruction. This can cause young kids to grow up hating other nations and that is when conflict can start. The lives that are lost during wartime are undeniably one of the biggest causes of death. One thing that every country has in common is the death toll that they face in war. Conflict arises no matter what the cause. The way to grow as a world is to control these conflicts with verbal communication instead of using war as an option.

Dan did not realize that he had been living in the future and in the past, but when he did, he started succeeding in sports and started building more meaningful relationships. This was an impactful way of showing people how focusing on the present can positively impact one’s life. The story is packed with advice on how to live life and how to succeed in life. Dan was taught to focus on every moment. At one point in the story an old man Dan met told Dan, “You’re missing out on everything that’s going on… The only thing that matters is this moment, here,now.”(Millman,2006) After the talk, Dan started to focus on the present and began to improve in his sport, gymnastics. The story has an effect on many people’s emotions because Dan shatters the bone in his leg and is unable to practice and compete for months in his favorite sport. Countless people can connect to this because they are athletes or people who have jobs they cannot do anymore due to an injury or a medical condition they have. This story shows those people that while they are not able to do some of the things they love, they can still succeed and be happy. By focusing on their present feelings they will not dwell on what they used to love, but find a new love they can do or practice recovering so they can get back to where they used to be. The old man shows Dan how to succeed and not only focus on gymnastics. He