Monday, January 25, 2010

How to tell a true war story

The chapter that has engaged me the most is how to tell a true war story, because it's interesting how your in the war seeing a very tragic event but you just do not believe it happened. You see something but then when trying to recall this event it may not be the whole truth of what you saw. I wonder why someone can't recall something so vivid in their minds happening right in front of them. The biggest event of this chapter is Curt Lemon dying while out in the woods with another soldier friend, they were goofing off not realizing their surroundings. Curt Lemon stepped on a detonator and died instantly while friends of his saw this happen right in front them.
I have two different types of feelings towards the war. My first thought about war is we obviously need war to make a stand and a point to other countries that want to start stuff with us. We help protect our country so our country can stay together and not get walked on by other countries because it shows a sign of weakness. My second thought about war is that it is sad to go fight over in a foreign country and possibly never returning to your loved ones. If there was another way for our country to fight a war without having Americans do it and losing their life's I would chose that.

4 comments:

Reid Morgan said...

I liked this chapeter as well. The discriptions about Lemons death were very discriptive and interesting. The mortar rounds that were in the ground all over Vietnam were dangerous and because no one has searched for them, many of them are still out there in Vietnam. One of the many side effects of war.

saynab said...

I like this story because It talks about when leimon died, and how Rat lost his friend.

Kelsey Tiberi said...

I like your views on war. I don't like that our country has to fight and we have to loose so many people to make a stand. But at the same time how else is a stand going to be made?

Lauren said...

I also enjoyed this chapter. I agree with you in the fact that this story makes you think that that tragic event counldn't of happened. I think it's because we are so used to having that person around and we have already developed a strong and close relationship so it is very hard to accept the fact that they are gone. I also agree with you on the fact that if there were another way to fight or go into war without having the possibility of losing a loved one I to would choose that route. I have had a close family member die in the miltary, my Uncle Benny, but unforenutly I was too young to remember or know him that well because he dies excatly two months after I was born.