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Terence Alan Milligan otherwise known as Spike Milligan was an Irish-English actor, playwright, poet, musician, and writer best known for the series of comical autobiographical works documenting his experiences as a soldier in the WWII British Army, children’s poetry and the high popular TV strip The Goon Show. Born of an English mother and an Irish father he spent most of childhood in India the country of his birth before immigrating to the UK later in life. He adopted the nickname of Spike after

Zach Scriven Mr. Belmont College Composition 1 August 31, 2016 Informative Louis Zamperini Louis Zamperini is best known for being the man that the movie “Unbroken” is based off of. The movie portrays most events in his life, but misses many other periods of his life. Throughout his life he endured many hardships, such as being bullied in high school, struggling as an Olympian, fighting in World War 2 and later being a Japanese POW, and the mental trauma resulting from his captivity. Louis Zamperini

Morning brought with it heavy rain, the nail-like droplets pelleted against the rim of my helmet and gathered in a puddle between my feet where I sat. The rippling pool brought a sense of peacefulness to the harsh conditions the trenches brought. The rain muffled the sounds of stray gunfire and stomach-curdling screams, it helped to take my mind off of what were to come over the course of the next few days. The things Ive seen will never be forgotten, visions of people I considered brothers being

vehicles (MRAP) next to the other MRAPs. While he started his after mission maintenance by checking all fluids and cleaning out the air filters on our MRAP, I started dismounting the M240 machine gun and shutting down all radios. Still standing in my gunners’ hole, which is on the top of the MRAP, as I waited for the radios to finish shutting down, I start to hear that religious music that always seems to play around this time of night. That music always seems to soothe me into sleep. This reminds me

My earliest recollection of wanting to join the military was when I was in the 8th grade. When anyone asked me what I wanted to do when I got older the answer was always the same, when I turn eighteen I’m joining the military. The branch of service may have changed by the focus was always on serving in the military. I wish I could state the drive behind joining, I believe it may have been for the glory only at that time. My only real connection to the military was my maternal grandfather who had

Since day one in the Army, we have all heard leaders use phrases such as “train as you fight” and “train to standard”. Surprisingly these are not just some catchy phrases that someone made up to motivate soldiers. These phrases, and many more come directly out of an Army manual, the ADP 7-0 to be precise. So why are we talking about this? Well, to paraphrase ADP 7-0, unit training is the life-blood of the Army. (Headquarters, D.A., 2012) Train as you will fight; ADP 7-0 defines this as “training

Combs 1 Arthur Lloyd Kelly was a veteran, he served in the Korean War, Vietnam War and World War II. He was a Kentucky native that did not approve of the way people never asked veterans from Kentucky about their views of the war, therefore he made a book telling about his experiences. He began the book by describing twelve different narratives based upon over 100 different interviews with WWII veterans from Kentucky. He also wrote another book called Crowded Moment: Morgan Brings the civil war to

Genetic testing is a hot-button issue in today’s society. With more and more parents able to have unborn fetuses tested for genetic abnormalities people can know before a baby is born whether it will have any number of genetic diseases. They can then in a lot of cases decide to end the pregnancy. There are two distinct sides to this debate, the people who are in favor of genetic testing because they think that it will help usher in medical breakthrough and the people on the other side of the

Racial gang fights were all too common in the military during the Vietnam War Era. Initially, African Americans thought the military was a safe haven from the Ku Klux Klan, but soon discovered the KKK was a major source of racial violence within the military. “Groups of whites, wearing real or impromptu Klan robes, were reported on numerous military bases in the United States and overseas.” (Westheider 85) The Ku Klux Klan also has similar traditional practices such as burning the cross on military

But also the enemies themselves proved to be more of a problem than they had thought, as for most of the time the soldiers do not even get to see them. The most common way for a soldier to face action was not an open fire fight with clear opposing fronts, like it was in previous wars, but rather when they were out on “search and destroy missions”, as portrayed in the movie Platoon where they squad around Taylor is sent out on one of these operations , in which patrols were sent out to search for