What’s Life Like After The War
April 6, 2008 by alpersa
After watching Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July an individual begins to understand what life would be like for an injurgied solidier returning from war. Injuired war veteran Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise) returns to his hometown of Massapequa, New York after suffering substantial injuries that left him paralyzed. He comes back home only to find the same memories, families, and friends that he had left. However, instead this time he feels as though he is compeletly hopeless and must rely on his family and friends to complete even the simplest of tasks. This heartfelt war story makes an individual realize just how difficult life is as a solider; whether they are on the front line, laying in a hospitial bed, or just returning from overseas. Life does not stop while they are gone and they must find a place to fit in, in the home they left several months or years prior.
Upon returing home from battle many solidiers feel a sense of accomplishment; they did their job and now they get to leave. However, the injured ones question themselves, playing back in their minds the time prior to the injury. Could they have done something different? Could they have saved another life? These are questions that will never be answered, the thoughts haunt them every night in their dreams. If civilians were to show more gratitude toward their fellow soldiers and recognize that they did not want the war anymore than the next person, our society as a whole would feel a better sense of belonging and encourage our solidies to go overseas, get the job done, and get home safely.
Let us look at the story of one solidier that has been fighting in the Iraq war and was just able to return home for a short period of time. As the solider was entering his car after leaving a gas station just outside of Fort Knox he heard a woman’s voice say “excuse me.” He turned around and found a mother with her seven year old son. The little boy peered up into the soliders eyes and blurted out “Thank you for your service” and immediatly tried to hide behind his mother. The solider thanked the boy and drove away in his car with a grin on his face.
If more soliders were shown the same gratidue there would be a stronger sense of union on the home front . This would give solidiers a sense of unity and the feeling that they were fighting for an important cause.
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4 April 2008
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I have realized that soldiers that return home lets say from Iraq do change. It is not always a bad change. I talked to my father who was in the army for many years, and he told me that he did change. He joined the army for only one reason, he didn’t have any other options. And after his term of serving was over he decided to stay in the military, because he saw the world in a different way after being in a war. I believe war changes every soldier in different ways.