Argumentative Essay On Valley Forge

Guilt is an emotion that O’Brien wanted to bluntly throw at the reader because the guilt is something a lot of soldiers faced in and out of war. There are multiple examples of the guilt in this book of all the trauma and all the love,the guilt starts to find its way into the characters. Continuing this, O’Brien runs with the psychological theme of guilt, and he does this masterfully. "They carried shame for almost dodging the draft. The weights they carried couldn’t be left behind and for some of the soldiers in O’Brien’s unit, they carried these intangible weights for more than twenty years after returning home from war"(Clark).

And, twenty years later, O’Brien is still living with the guilt. He doesn 't want to tell her truth just yet. After he killed the soldier Tim stated,"Even now I haven 't finished sorting it out. Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I don 't"(2). Trying to understand the hardship that soldiers go through after coming home from combat, It may be a hard period of time to recover but it takes day-to-day to start a future

In the civil war novel Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen, within pages 52- 57, Nelson, a fellow soldier was wounded in the stomach. This made it difficult for him to fight or even breathe. Stomach wounds were known as untreatable injuries meaning that when a soldier got one they were practically left to die. When soldiers were super injured like in this situation and didn’t have enough strength to keep fighting, they had to be left on their own to die. In this case Charley did not follow this rule.

This painting reflects my friend Ana’s life. Her husband was killed in action. Words can described how painful and devastating is, when a Chaplain knock at your door and delivery the horrible news. On this painting looks that with a letter they deliver the bad news, and with it they sent the medals that was awarded to the soldier. Today the USA Army help the widow with an insurance, instead of medal, the widow receive an American flag.

War veterans have been misunderstood and mistreated since the days of the ancient Greeks. Other men tried to steal the wives of soldiers back in ancient Greece, and America’s Vietnam veterans returned and were labeled as “baby killers”. The experience of war and serving in the military changes veterans. The only people who have experienced what they have are other soldiers. They feel like no one understands what they have been through when they return home.

Or leave to go back to a normal life? I will be re-enlisting as part of Washington 's army for my freedom from the tyranny of Britain, and for the future of my family, my country. Money is scarce, and even through war makes it into to gold. If I do make money, I could use it to make a good house for a future wife and children. Some soldiers got easy, never going through the brutal parts of the war.

As home is place where the Tillermans can stay and live together happily. So Foster homes are the Tillermans best choice for survival, but seems like a last ditch effort for the Tillermans. The Tillermans main goal is to stay together forever, and living in foster homes makes the goal impossible. If the Tillermans can not stay together they feel defeated and can never feel at home. So to the Tillermans, what is the point of living if they can never feel

At the Governor's hall, Hester tried to convince the governor to let her keep her child. Dimmesdale found the Governor’s reasoning to take away their child unamiable. He took Hester’s side and said, “ God gave her the child” (Hawthorne 101) Dimmesdale stood up for her because he did not mant their child to be taken away from Hester. He trusted her. The child might had been what kept them together but no matter what, he defended her and their relationship never truly lost it’s connection.

Veterans experience atrocities that causes them to question how God could allow such cruelty to exist. Krebs predicament with his religion is common among those exposed to life without a sense of safety and assurance. Seeing the carnage war produces can scramble a man’s sense of reality and illusion. Everyone comes out of war a different person. Philip K. Paulson, a veteran of the Vietnam War, went into Vietnam a Lutheran, and became an atheist after one month in Vietnam.

This allows the country to spend less on military spending and focus more on social welfare and economic growth, whilst making sure the country stays safe from any potential threat or invasion from its crazy northern neighbor. So there’s a merit to joining the military — proudly serving the country and keeping family and friends safe. But accepting the reality was shockingly harsh in the year 2010 when I had no choice but to join the military that many conscript candidates called a prison. Okay, let me rephrase that — I did have one choice other than joining the military: To spend time in a prison cell for rejecting the duty of a conscript candidate citizen. Friends would normally ask how tough the physical training is in the military.

Things have become so atrocious that George Washington had to ask the Congressional Committee for more money. I doubt they have any to give, for they are more focused on the bigger picture, rather than a few deteriorated soldiers (Doc B). Dr.Waldo wrote in his journal, “A general cry thro’ the camp this evening among the soldiers, “No meat! No meat!” -The distant vales echoed back the melancholy sound- “No meat! No meat!” This tells how us soldiers have been starving for quite a while now, and most of us are done dealing with the hardships.

Valley Forge: Would you have quit? During the winter of 1777 - 1778 the Patriots were in Valley Forge. Tons of soldiers suffered from disease, starvation, and frostbite. Most of them even died. The conditions were horrible for the soldiers and they were dying out.

He lets this Captain know that the doctor told him he was not fit for military service. He also mentions how he thinks he 's not strong enough, but will try to get into service in a couple weeks if he gets a bit stronger. This letter lets me know that for the civil war you had to be tough in a way. If you weren 't strong enough there was no way you would make it. 2.)

I will re-enlist because we will get more help. I will stay because I feel that I need to help the army. I know why my friends are leaving, It is because of everything that is happening. I don’t care what they are doing but I am staying(This Day in

During the winters of 1777 and 1778, there was freezing weather and a couple thousand of sick soldiers and dead soldiers (Busch, 147). Many soldiers are not re-enlisting or are deserting before their nine-month re-enlistment has ended. General Washington, desperate to keep an army together to fight the war against Britain has asked us soldiers look into our hearts and ask ourselves the following question: Will you quit? To quit would be to not re-enlist. I have decided to not re-enlist for three reasons which are high chances of illness, horrible lodging and weather, and sparse food and clothing.