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Comparing Gary Roush's Story 'And Song Military Madness'

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1965-1972 Story and song comparison
CHINOOK CRASH at FSB Keene 21 November 1968 By Gary Roush(Story) and Military Madness By Graham Nash(Song): Both the song and the story portray war in a way where they describe that the military can trap someone, be it physically or mentally. The military can be a very unpleasant experience. In the Story by Gary Roush he describes how his training in that moment had run out, and he was trapped. Zero options, dead, no way to escape.
In the song by Graham Nash he explains how military only tears everyone apart. It is killing the country. The fact that Gary explains how he thought he was for sure left for dead greatly supports Grahams claims about war, such as Graham saying war brings so much sadness. Gary was for sure sad when he thought he had not …show more content…

He must fight for what he wants or needs while many are just born with that luck to have it already. Like the song saying many are born with things already theirs, they’re lucky and have no worries, but the author of the song and Charlie both do.

March on Washington to End the Vietnam War April 17th, 1965 and Stop the War Now By Edwin Starr: The story explaining the march on Washington to end the Vietnam War has a clear group of people shown who don’t believe in the war and just want it to stop, as soon as possible. Much like Edwin saying stop the war, now. He specifically says now and not to wait any longer. Both the people in this march to end the war and the author of this song did not think this war was right and just wanted it to come to an end.
Some people would rather just have peace. Edwin says to make the sound of peace and sing to stop the war. Edwin believes you should not put it off any longer and just try and stop the war. Much like the people involved in the march. Edwin did not want any more deaths to come from the war that he believes we should not even be fighting

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