Serviceman's Readjustment Act Of 1944 By John Brienback

After two decades later, the world went through a devastating conflict that affected about 45 million people. The war in Europe (1914-18) set the path for the biggest, longest war in history. Rising to the top economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler, and the National Socialist changed the nation and came together with Italy and Japan to push him towards world domination over many countries. After Hitler took over Poland in September 1939 it pushed Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, which later on sparked World War II. Six years of destruction, on property, families, and once a connected country all down the drain caused by the hands of an unstable man called Adolf Hitler. The lives of people that were took

The adrenaline that breaks up a soldier’s life in some people eyes is worth it, but how about how they are treated, as if they are a material object being washed out or controlled by the higher power. The Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944 gives the benefits to soldiers that sacrificed for their country by having school, medical expenses all covered by the government. People viewed soldiers as a commodity, soldiers were drafted and forced to fight wars overseas. After the major war the public opinion on soldiers started to change, and even public policy changed by passing the Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944. John Stienback wrote his essay (Why Won’t Soldiers Talk) about war that appeal to the public by stating that a soldier’s life after war is not the same before. Randall Jarrell poem (The Death of the Ball Turret and Gunner) gives you a visual of a soldier’s life before in a womb ready to be born into a world being government issued. The effective of Stienback’s and Jarrell’s writings changed public opinion and public policy by giving the public an open viewing to a soldiers life

"If they had been reticent men it would have been different, but some of them were talkers and some were even boasters. They would discuss their experiences right up to the time of battle and then suddenly they wouldn't talk any more..." In Randall Jarrell’s "The Death of the Ball Turret and Gunner" the soldier is in a nightmare that he cannot get out of. He’s falling down spiral and can’t control it neither his life. "Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters." The differences between the two writing is, Stienback is writing about the combat life of a soldier. They don’t want to talk about what happened because it brings to much bad memories, and dreams that distress them. In Jarrells’s writing the young soldier is ready to be born to protect their country, but doesn't’t know how down their falling into the nightmare. As a result a soldier is government issued, meaning they come into this world to protect their country nothing