Terry Wallace's For Whom The Bell Tolls

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Sustained strife sometimes results from a clash amongst opposing world-views. Morality and sense of duty in many cases oppose one another. Due to the high importance placed on values and morals, people generally are unwilling to mediate a conflicting view.
Terry Wallace’s book Bloods, gives the reader an intake of 20 African American soldiers, whom have all fought in Vietnam during the war. The book is written post war, and allows the veterans to input their values and views on the war operations they conducted. In Earnest Hemingway’s book For Whom the Bell Tolls, the reader follows the war operation of Republican soldiers blowing up a Fascist-controlled bridge. Through this ploy, the guerilla and republican soldiers opposing views cause clashes. Differing world- views on tactics of war in many cases, restricts soldier’s participation on operations of war. In situations such as this, sense of duty that is held by soldier becomes evident due to them going against their morals. In Bloods, Wallace has compiled the autobiographies of 20 Vietnam War veterans all that which were African Americans. Their stories allow the readers to get a brief intake on what it meant to be a soldier of color. Their experiences provide gruesome, lively, and detailed war operations …show more content…

Their morals and values did not interject upon the moment of actions due to their duty being more important to them. "The residue of hate is a horrible thing to leave behind. The residue of nuclear holocaust is far worse" (Wallace, 15). The realities of war were not made evident to these 20 soldiers’ until the aftermath of the war was made clear. The realities of war became clear once guilt became a factor to the soldiers; all the killing sprees, nuclear tactics, and bombs killed thousands of innocent lives, and upon arrival to the U.S. the soldiers continued to receive lack of