War I Was A Military War Veteran

Veterans are important because they have given us our freedom from tyrants for the past 237 years. Vets fought against the oppressors from of England during the War of Independence and the War of 1812. They continue to fight today! The estimated amount of casualties from the War of Independence was around 50,000! That means over 50,000 people died to stop England’s tyranny, in just one of two wars! In attacking Americans in the War of 1812, England sent ten times as many troops in just the last six months, than they had during all the years before. That is how much the greedy British wanted to steal the United States of America from us! Had the Veterans not stood their ground, we would all be French

A veteran is “a person who has served in the armed forces.” This is the dictionaries definition of a veteran. An unknown author wrote “a veteran is someone who, at one point in his/her life, wrote a blank check payable to ‘The United States of America,’ for an amount of ‘up to and including my life,’” but not everyone has the same definition for a veteran, so what is yours? Veterans have not been treated the best after they have come back home from the military. They could come back home with mental illnesses or disabilities or, for others, they could come home to financial problems. Some veterans end up homeless because they have no money when they get home. Others could end up in depression. Veterans do not just come home and go back to their normal lives like some people think they do. So, for the good of American war veterans and other American citizens, these veterans need improved therapy and treatment than what they are receiving currently.

When the World War I Veteran returned home, the U.S. states organize a parade in honor of their services. During the first months of their return everything was great because American citizens and the War Veteran were still celebrating the victory of World War One over the Central Powers. After the welcome parades, the War veteran returned to their hometowns to see their families and friends. Families and Friend were happy to see their love ones returning home from World War I as heroes. Not everybody welcomed the Veteran with open hands, those people were Big Businessman because during the World War I; Companies that employed the War Veteran before the war, they had already given their jobs to women and African American from the south, who

Being involved in war will scar someone for the rest of their life. The novel A Long Way Gone shows the effect on children and how they lost their childhoods. Adult soldiers are too corrupted by the evils of war. When they come home they are not the same person. Many are diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. PTSD is a mental health condition that is causes by a terrible experience. One in five of the more than two million United States service members who have fought in either Iraq or Afghanistan have returned with symptoms of post-deployment syndrome.

Due to current operations in the Middle East and the recent combat operations in the past decade, many citizens have met somebody who has experienced their share of combat related stress. When you look at somebody who has been in combat, they may look like your average person on the outside, but on the inside lays memories of the violent scenes of war torn countries. Their mental health may not be noticeably altered, but they could very well suffer from haunting memories, flashbacks, and even post-traumatic stress disorder.

Being in war is definitely one of the most life changing events a person will ever have whether it be for the better or for the worst. Soldiers will witness events that are impossible to forget or see back at home in the states. Some soldiers may have even seen one of their best friends that they’ve known for forever get blown up into pieces right next to them, or they might even get one of their own limbs blown off of their own bodies, becoming handicapped for life. As a result of seeing something so intense like that, most soldiers are usually traumatized. In matter of fact, a great amount of soldiers are traumatized from the very beginning of being in war. It’s without a doubt difficult to deal with this but there are some ways where

Military service members who are and have been deployed to the middle east show high levels of emotional distress and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Both active duty and reserve component soldiers who have experienced combat have been exposed to high levels of traumatic stress. As a consequence, many have gone on to develop a wide range of mental health problems such as PTSD. “According to researchers, PTSD is a long-term reaction to war-zone exposure that can last up to a few minutes, hours, several weeks, and for some a lifetime.” Common symptoms include: emotional numbing, anxiety, feelings of guilt, and depression. If the disorder turns chronic veterans may experience functional impairment (Friedman, M. J. et al., 1994, p.

The final reason I did not reenlist was because of how little quality food there was. “Poor food” ( Waldo 151). The food we ate at Valley Forge was terrible because it was almost frozen by the time we started eating it. “ Nasty Cookery” ( Waldo 151 ). The cookery we used to prepare food was not clean, which led to more food poisoning. There was no meat at Valley Forge (Waldo 151) .Since there was no meat at camp, soldiers and I did not get the proper vitamins to stay healthy and fight in the war. The food was so nasty I was vomiting all the time.

The recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been experienced not only on the battlefield but when they return, the war comes home with them. Military service members have to deal with the emotional and physical scars and the multiple civilian

Its amazing how quickly we humans desensitise ourselves to such confronting sights, sounds and smells. The war does that to you, any and all feelings that you have prior will disappear

“When I was in serious danger I was almost completely paralysed by fear, I remember sitting with a coffin (a fellow soldier) on the fire-step of a trench during an intense bombardment, when it seemed certain that we must be killed”(The Psychological Effects Of The Vietnam War). Our soldiers that we send to war to protect us against the countries trying to harm us are put into dangerous situations that affect them physically and mentally and leave them with permanent damage to their minds and bodies. The server damage that our military soldiers faced when returning from war is PTSD which stands for post traumatic stress disorder and is the most common disorder that returning soldiers are diagnosed with , but a more tragic diagnosis from war

According to Dr. Croft, who is a Medical Director and Principal Investigator for the San Antonio Psychiatric Research Center, the deployed soldiers have had a bigger chance to experience many mental health problems, after they had returned home, including combat PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). This is a part of PTSDs which affects people who had been in hostility and had witnessed to direful events in the battle. Dr. Croft subsequently explains that the returning soldiers might persistently feel that they still in a combat zone, although they aren’t, and re-experience of the traumatic event. This could be happened in many ways such as keep reminiscing the combat events, and feeling disturbance in dreams and in hallucinations. In conjunction

All across the country military men and women are coming home from the war in Iraq, otherwise known as Operation Iraqi Freedom. This "Operation" is costing many soldiers not only their physical lives but their mental lives as well. It's one thing to come home with part of your leg or arm amputated, but it is an entirely different matter when you come home and you have lost the ability to sleep well at night. Or you cannot stand the sound of fireworks, or you cannot drive over a bridge for fear something terrible will happen, or you wake up in the night screaming from the horrors that your mind will just not forget. This is the case with many military veterans returning home from the war in Iraq. One wife recalls of her husband, "He keeps waking

It is awesome you got the opportunity to experience the places you have been. Although, not under the best of circumstances, not many people are able to see such beauty and devastation in such a short period of time. I am sure your experiences have cause you to see your life in a different light. Did you have any training while in the military for your field of study? Do you have to work full time as well? Finally, are you a full time student?

When asked how he felt about the deaths of 9 /11, Pablo Sequera , a 22 year old US army soldier in Iraq said "I wanted to bomb the fuck out of every single one of them towel heads". Now fighting in Iraq he says he has grown more sympathy and understanding toward Middle Eastern people. "Actually being up close, watching how they live every day in violence, has given me even more ambition to help them gain freedom" said Sequera. War will always change a person whether it's physically or mentally, a soldier never leaves the way he came in. The smells of gunfire, the loud ping of bullets bouncing off of metal, the vibrations of grenades exploding nearby, and the taste of their own fear climbing up into their throat will always remain close to