Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Personal thought about the soldiers in Ireq War
After I read the blogs which are written by an American soldier in http://www.soldierlife.com/category/mobilized/ , it proved to me that my thoughts towarded the Ireq War are absolutely correct. Soldiers' injuries and deaths are expected. Besides that, families' cares are necessary for the soldiers. The feelings and moods of the soldiers should be very serious as what I was expected. However, it is just the opposite in the reality. The soldiers seem to take everything easy. They play games and watch movies during the free time, enjoy the war life even though they get injuried, and keep contact with their families happily by receiving every package from them, etc. All of these made me feel that the soldiers are not on a war but on a trip. Are they crazy? Are they not care about their lives? I don't think so. They just don't want their families to worry about them, exactly like Helen Z. Smith's story that we read in the course pack. In fact, I believe that nobody would like to have a war that makes thousands of soldiers died, and therefore millions of people lost their sons, their husbands and their fathers forever. From this, I learn to treasure life, and treasure people around me. I hope that the war will end soon and God Bless America.
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You made a very nice connection between one of the important themes of "Not So Quiet" and that of an American soldier's voice. I totally agree with you that the soldiers are not truly enjoying their military lives. They are hiding their real feelings and showing opposite attitudes towards the war just because they don't like to see the worried faces of the ones who care about them.
I also agree with that connection, it would seem as though the soldiers are attempting to make their families at ease; clearly no one wants war when there's the possibility that they or their friends may die. All those games they play and movies they watch are just ways of keeping morale up and maintaining sanity I suppose. However the harsh reality of death is something that no entertainment can suppress, and hopefully as few soldiers as possible have that experience, so here's to hoping for a swift conclusion. -Xavier Matos
It's true. it seems as though most of us do indeed believe that this war is all about politics. It trully has nothing to do with Iraqi freedom but rather iraqi oils. The soldiers are screeming out. This is how we knoe that its time this ends.
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