War Heroes Voices from Iraq

This is Audie Murphy's life story. At the tender age of 12, he becomes the head of the family after his father deserts them. He joins the army at the age of 18 and through the course of the war is decorated for valor nine times thus becoming the most decorated combat soldier in World War II. Audie does one of the bravest acts any soldier ever did during the war. He climbs aboard a burning tank destroyer and single handedly keeps the enemy from advancing on his position. He spends almost an hour on top of the tank destroyer until his ammunition is exhausted. Seconds later after climbing off the tank destroyer, it explodes. For this action, Audie receives the Medal of Honor.

troops on a hopeless humanitarian mission pulled out of Mogadishu, Somalia. A few Americans realize that during this mission, U.S. troops had the most continuous and gruesome battle fought by American’s since the Vietnam War. The afternoon of October 3rd, 1993, soldiers of Task Force Ranger, and Delta Force were sent to capture two lieutenants of a rebel Somalian warlord and return to base. This mission was supposed to take 30 min, but instead, the soldiers were pinned down in the middle of Mogadishu market and in a desperate effort of kill or be killed. For about 20 hours, U.S. soldiers created a bloody firefight that resulted in 19 American fatalities and the death of 1000 Somali fighters. Black Hawk Down tells the story of that desperate battle, from all angles of the war.

The story, A Soldiers Home, is about a man in conflict with the past and present events in his life. The young man’s name is Harold Krebs. He recently returned from World War 1 to find everything almost exactly the same as when he left. He moved back into his parents house, where he found the same car sitting in the same drive way. He also found the girls looking the same, except now they all had short hair. When he returned to his home town in Oklahoma the hysteria of the soldiers coming home was all over. The other soldiers had come home years before Krebs had so everyone was over the excitement. When he first returned home he didn’t want to talk about the war at all. Then, when he suddenly felt the urge and need to talk about it no one

A true war story is not about being brave and how many men you killed, it is about what you learn from the things you did. It is about the

Heroes care not only for themselves, but for others. In the White House Funeral Sermon for Abraham Lincoln, “...not for himself only, not for us only, but for all people in all their coming generations till time shall be no more…” This means that President Lincoln took risks not to ensure his safety but to make sure that he would be known as a doer. Lincoln knew that what he was doing would revolutionize the way not only the way his generation would live but all future ones. This showed that he cared not only for himself but for people he would never get the pleasure of meeting. Back in World War II a true hero was born. One of the bloodiest battles of WWII, Hacksaw Ridge, was lucky to have Desmond Doss as a part of their medical team. He saved 75 people. Most in which others had left behind, for they thought that they weren’t saving. He cared about every single one making it back to base to be helped despite who was after him. Or even in the 9/11 boatlift many heroes stepped up to the plate. Vincent Ardolino, Captain of the Amberjack V,

What about being in the war, fighting for the right of everyone in your country to be free. Does this make you a hero? Here is a story about Chris Walsh, a Navy Medic, and a few other marines were in the search for an insurgents, when they came across an Iraqi woman trying to get their attention by waving her arms to flag them down. The Iraqi woman was holding a baby saying. “Baby. Baby sick.” The Iraqi baby girl name Mariam was a few months old; it appeared that Mariam was born with her bladder outside of her body, a medical condition known as, Bladder Exstrophy. Being born with such a rare condition like Bladder Exstrophy, while living in Iraqi; Walsh knew that she would need to have surgery in the United States. Chris Walsh did absolutely

Marcus Luttrell always wanted to be a SEAL and he did. He went through the treacherous boot camp training and became an amazing sniper. Luttrell was then stationed in Afghanistan and of he went. As a sniper, the terrain should be covered up well and a sniper shouldn't be visible to anyone. That was the problem for the boys but they tried to hide by digging trenches and staying low. After being there for quite sometime, Marcus, Danny, Matt, and Michael ran into some Afghan goat herders. They contemplated whether or not

On the disastrous day, most of the soldiers were having lunch in Italy when they got a call from their commanders. Rob’s coworker asked him if he had seen on the news that American Airlines Boeing 767 hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City (9/11 Attacks). After the report, everyone returned to the military post, turned on CNN news, and along with my cousin, saw the second plane hit the south tower. The naval base in Naples, Italy immediately called in extra security. There was no direct word of an attack on Italy, but the officers had to take precautions just in case one might occur. Rob was initially surprised, but reality set in quickly, and he had to think of protecting his unit. “My initial feeling was complete shock and disbelief, but when I realized it was really happening, we had to call extra security to come protect the base” (MMA Dempewolf). His family did not understand why he had to leave them and work overtime. They later came to appreciate the sacrifices he made for his

It’s June 5, 1944, the day before D-day. The 101st Airborne Division led by their vigorous lieutenant Alex Hodulik is deployed behind enemy lines and they are known as paratroopers. The soldiers mission was to anchor the corps southern flank and to destroy the 2nd defense of the German forces on the hazardous beach. The day before the mission was a go, I lieutenant Alex Hodulik, was informed by my commanding officer that we have a few replacements for those who have fallen in our division. Little did I know, my little brother had volunteered for the paratroopers. “The replacements just showed up,” yells sergeant Ryan, “there's my little brother.” I immediately ran to him and asked, “Why the hell did you join the paratroopers? You had

With no vision or plan to enter the civilian life and no idea what to do with my life, I still had severe scars of the year in Iraq. There wasn’t a priority or a drive, but however, I did have some responsibility I had a wife and three children. In a desperate move, I attempted to return to the State where I was born as I think about it this may have been some comfort zone. I would send my two new children back home to their state while I attempted to land a job. My first interview would be in Cincinnati as a Retail Manager in a large company. Confident that I had some stability, I couldn’t avoid the heavy drinking or my violent outbursts I would eventually succumb to leaving my wife and two children to find myself in this lost world, which later I regretted. My focus was to leave everything behind and start a new life this would

I used to live in a city called Mosul that was located in the Northern Iraq. In that city, there was a lot of gangs and bad people who broke laws. It was also a city of criminals. Justice was not a major thing in that city. I and my family had to live there because my dad loved his job. Which was working and building churches? I lost my dad when I was seven years old.

In this book he told me the life story from when he was born how he grew up from an young age to high school and what he did for example he was a rancher in high school. Before he enlisted into the Navy he was an bull rider. In his young career of bull riding he was flung from the bull and later was nearly trampled to death by the beast. Chris broke multiple bones. From there chris enlisted on the navy and about three years later he was through BUD/S and being transported with his battalion to the city of Ramadi and from 1999-2009 chris was moved within multiple wartorn countries in the Middle

Adam is a hero because when he had a relapse, he went to someone and and asked them for help ( put quote). He went to Texas and stayed there for awhile He didn’t want Kelley to know but she knew he was there.He decided that it was best for him to go into the Navy. He went and talked to them told them everything that happened and that he wanted to be in the Navy. Adam had gotten into the Navy just by a little chance with his stories that he told but he knew someone that he went to school with.

First off, heros fight for a cause they believe in. Abraham Lincoln, the president of the United states during the American Civil War; at his funeral sermon was said this about him, “The cause he so ardently loved, so ably, patiently, faithfully represented and defended.” (SB pg 68)Dr. Phineas D. Gurley talked about how Lincoln fought against slavery with everything he had. Around the same time another person showed how they were heroic. John Henry was an african american man who had been freed after the war. He was working on a railroad track to get land when a man challenged them with his machine who could build the track first. John Henry challenged him but sadly died. John Henry did what he thought was right and challenged the man so the men working on the track could all have land. Many heroes emerged from 9/11, some of these heros were from evacuating people off of Manhattan island. Many people brought their boats and evacuated citizens of the island This evacuation was even bigger than Dunkirk in WW2.

At the square, tio was tied up with two men at gunpoint. One man was two inches shorter than tio making him about 6’3 and the other a recruit barely holding the gun straight. The soldier behind me has a scar on his pinky. He held me by my hair firmly and would tighten his grip the more I cried. Sargent Ricardo paced back and forth for a couple minutes as if pondering what to do. He finally stopped and looked down. When he looked back up his twisted smile was back. “Hello everyone, today we have the co-leader of the National Liberation army Alberto Ferdinando Castil Lozo who we have been looking for, for quite a while. Wanted for the endangerment of civilians and betrayal to the country. This is to set an example. We are striving towards a