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Nonviolence In The Hurt Locker

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At the very beginning of The Hurt Locker there is an example of the U.S. military wanting to avoid violence in Iraq. They were advocating pacifism by trying to take a bomb away from a largely crowded area with a drone. They were trying to take it to a safe area and blow it up to avoid any casualties. They had complications with the drone and lost lives due to a terrorist detonation. There are multiple situations where nonviolence is used to diffuse a problem by using a bomb specialist named James. Later James is ordered to stand down because it was taking too long to defuse a bomb. James was deliberately ignoring him and risking his life, his military groups and the surrounding innocent civilian lives by continuing to mess with things in
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The government had ruled the matter of death of these men far too gruesome and awful for the families to be told of it. Every mother of each of the Flyboys died without knowing the brave journeys of their sons. James felt that those men wanted their experiences to be explained. No one knew exactly what happened to the eight men on Chichi Jima. He knew that he now understood what those mothers were never told and he had to share it with others.

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