Wages of War Chap. 15
In Chapter 15 it talks about all the non-white soldiers and what they went through before and after the war. The blacks saw the war as a way to prove to whites they are trustworthy and deserve to be...
View ArticleChapters 16-18 Wages of War
In Chapter 16 it starts off by stating how the government began to see that it was time to provide veterans with a plan that would care for the sick and the wounded. A Federal Bureau for Vocational...
View ArticleDoing Battle/The Greatest Generation Comes Home
In Doing Battle, by Paul Fussell, he starts off by talking about how he was the leader of the rifle platoon in Company F. Later on I started reading about how on March 15 his Company would go on attack...
View ArticleThe Greatest Generation Comes Home pgs. 38-89
In this reading of The Greatest Generation Comes Home, it started off by saying how soldiers felt nothing but shock when they were wounded. Technology in weapons had improved and within four years of...
View ArticleDoing Battle pgs. 171-217, 284-299
In this reading of Doing Battle, Fussell said the question on how he could justify his life pressed on him. He wondered if there was meaning in his escape from death. Overall, Fussell had hatred...
View ArticleThe Greatest Generation: Chap. 4-6, 8. The Wages of War: Chap. 20
In Chapter 4 of The Greatest Generation Comes Home, it talks about women’s roles in the war. One quote from this chapter that stood out to me was in the beginning when it said, “it was their war, too.”...
View ArticleBorn on the Fourth of July
In Chapters 1-3, in Born of the Fourth of July, Ron Kovic starts off by talking about how he was paralyzed and his experiences in the hospital. He felt very depressed and helpless.Part of the reason I...
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Ann Caracristi- The Signals Intelligence Service was looking at women’s colleges seeking people who could work for cryptology. They asked for recommendations and Ann Caracristi and two other girls were...
View ArticleThe Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, Washington Post...
The Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 was an act to pay for veterans’ college expenses. The act included funding 100% of a public four-year undergraduate education to a veteran who...
View ArticleWartorn
Wartorn really shows how hard of a transition it was for soldiers from the war back into society. In the beginning it shows interviews with men from wars awhile ago talking about how they broke down...
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