Over his twenty- seven year career, Lieutenant Colonel John C. Gurney distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious service in a succession of positions of great importance and responsibility to the Army and the Nation, culminating as the Commander of Detachment Six, 3100 Strategic Intelligence Group, Military Intelligence Readiness Command for the past twenty-six months. His previous positions of significant leadership included Strategic Intelligence Officer, Detachment Seven, 3100 Strategic Intelligence Group; G-2, Assistant Chief of Staff, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command; Operations Officer/Intelligence Officer, Detachment Six, 3100 Strategic Intelligence Group. As the Commander Detachment Six, 3100 Strategic Intelligence
In Chapter 9 of Behind the Scenes, Elizabeth Keckley describes two very different reactions to liberty she witnessed while working among freed slaves. Some freedmen and freedwomen were miserable in the North, and even wished to return to their southern homes and their old lives. Others began building new homes and new lives for themselves, happy to be on their own and free. Keckley states that some slaves had exalted views of what freedom was going to be like.
How does the social position affect the person and their surroundings? As M.R.C. Kasasian said “The poor, are kind to each other, but that is because they have nothing to lose, ' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be”. Strictly based on external influences are people’s decisions, one of those influences being their placement within society. People in different social classes within a community, causing them to behave differently than their peers.
The second character that I would like to talk about from the story "Guest of the Nations" written by Frank O 'Conner is Bonaparte. Bonaparte was the narrator throughout the story. His duty was to watch the hostages in the house and make sure they didn 't escape. He in the end had to shoot Hawkins the British soldier that had been captured to put him out of his misery after the first shot by Donovan didn 't kill him. He didn 't like his duty to kill them and wouldn 't have shot at them had they tried escaping since they had became his friends.
This chapter “The Ghost Soldiers”, showed us how Tim O’Brien and the other soldiers were dealing with the war both physically and psychologically. It also shows us how the Tim O'Brien behaved and felt when he was shot, wounded and had a bacteria infection on his butt and how the war changed the way he thought, and viewed the other soldiers around him. This chapter also contain a lot of psychological lens. From the way Tim O’Brien felt when he was shot and separated from his unit to a new unit to when he wanted revenge on Bobby Jorgenson for almost “killing” him.
It is assumed that no one actually enlists with the sole purpose of killing people. This next short story is entitled “The Man I Killed.” Right off the bat, O’Brien goes into extremely gruesome details of the body of the boy he just killed. He describes the wounds for half of a paragraph. In this story, the reader can feel the guilt in the author as he stands on the trail, thinking about this boy’s life before he brutally murdered him.
Erich Maria Remarque was a man who had lived through the terrors of war, serving since he was eighteen. His first-hand experience shines through the text in his famous war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, which tells the life of young Paul Bäumer as he serves during World War 1. The book was, and still is, praised to be universal. The blatant show of brutality, and the characters’ questioning of politics and their own self often reaches into the hearts of the readers, regardless of who or where they are. Brutality and images of war are abundant in this book, giving the story a feeling of reality.
The role for the final character, Mr Bradshaw is to be the Camp Wiggin’s administrator. This story takes place at Camp Wiggin, and it happens during a two
Jennifer Egan’s novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, follows the lives of a few people who are relatively connected. For instance, Bennie, a former rock star and record executive, and his assistant Sasha, who is a kleptomaniac, are main characters in their respected chapters that are linked together. The story leaps around from one character to year filling in the gaps of the past and future simultaneously. There are many themes present throughout the whole novel; most notably the passage of time and aging. Throughout the whole story, there will be times where each character would be at the height of their life/career, but eventually start to struggle once they are no longer at their peak.
“How to Tell a True War Story” and “Ambush” are stories that both explore on topics: truth, the real definition of a true war story, and the role of truth. O 'Brien starts off “How to Tell a True War Story” with “This is true.” Starting this story with such a bold sentence not only makes it seem more true, but to some extent, it acts as a comfort statement to the narrator’s own doubts, as if there were unspeakable uncertainties and lies of the narrator. The title of this story also comes into play, with a meta-fictional name “How to Tell a True War Story”, as if it were a guide, a manual, having a true war story tell the readers how to tell a true war story. However ironically, towards the middle of the story, us as
‘The Universal Soldier’ by Buffy Sainte-Marie (link) is a passionate anti-war song that utilises a plethora of writing techniques to help illustrate the question: who’s really responsible for war? This song was originally released in 1963, right at the heart of the Vietnam War. This is an important detail, because it gives some background to the reason she decided to write the song at the time. I also think that she recognised that a song written by somebody who's a bit more famous is going to reach a wider group of people, and create a community where pacifists can feel comfortable sharing their controversial opinions. The aforementioned song details all of the ways a soldier can differ, and has undertones of anti-war language.
The main character, “Joker”, copes with his high stress training by befriending his drill sergeant and taking command of his platoon. The first time his
When the door was opened, Margot ran out. She seemed upset, but furious at the same time. It seemed as if she were dynamite and her classmates were the fuses that made her explode. “Wait-” William started to say. ”Let her have some time to herself before apologizing.”
Telling a true war story can be hard to do, because soldiers are tempted to change some traumatic aspects to make the story easier to comprehend, and not so traumatic for the listener. For the readers who prefer the brutal and gruesome stories,
