Short Story
In the short story Get Some, It follows a day in the life of a marine in Iraq. In the beginning of the book the soldier and his whole squad are complaining about not being in the action. They are getting excited to be in a firefight. I thought this was strange because in Fallen Angels it was the opposite, no one wanted to fight. When the fighting started the marine killed his first couple enemies and he was not phased at all. The fact that he just killed someone did not bother him. After the firefight the marines were convoying out of the city when suddenly a car bomb blew up in the middle of the road. It had killed a child and severely injured a man. The marines instinctively went to help the man. it did not matter to them that he was not American, they just wanted to help him. It made the marine think about how happy he was that the war was not in America. The marine also felt bad that civilians had to get caught in the middle of the war.
My reaction to this story was when the marines went to help the civilian, i thought it was very noble of them to help the injured man even thou he was not American. I think it shows who the real good guys are. It shows that just because two countries are at war, does not mean that you cant still help them.
10 comments:
Nice job Taylor,
You have a good point about the marine who helped the civilian. In the war it seems that the soldiers will kill anyone in their way, but it is nice to know that they will go out of their way to help someone, even if they are on the enemies side.
exactly, war should not include the civilians. That is the biggest problem with war.
Well it's hard in a way because soldiers may be only looking for the enemies but civilians tend to get in the way..
Like we saw in the Operation Homecoming video, the soldier had to differentiate between the enemy soldiers, and the civilians. He had to watch to see which were which. Usually they are dressed differently but like in the video, some civilians are the ones that get involved.
it just seems like we should go back to teh good old days when they lined up in two lines and took turnsshooting
haha you wish. I don't think that would not work very well these days.
EXCUSE ME.
typo, i don't think that would work very well these days.
i know i was kidding... it would just be easyier to tell who is the enemy
I agree with all three of you. the bad thing about war is that the civilians have to get involved in all the blood shed.
the title fits the story because of how excited they are to get into battle. it shows how antsy they were before they go into the fights
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