Boys and Girls at War with Love and Hate

Boys and Girls at War with Love and Hate

  • Submitted By: brockweldy
  • Date Submitted: 08/28/2011 10:08 PM
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Since the beginning of time there has been “war”. With war come those who support it and those who do not. There are many ways to define “war” and many arguments for both sides of war. The word war cannot just simply be defined in one sentence, and its meaning cannot be expressed in only one word, or just a few for that matter. War is simply more than the meaning of “a military conflict between nations and parties”, as the dictionary puts it. War is far more complex. It arouses feelings of aggression, sadness, depression, and satisfaction. War includes many stages of action, and can last only a few hours and in some cases years, and requires at time such political detail that very few people truly understand it.
General William T. Sherman once said, “War is hell”, and that is so. In irony war is “any place or state of supreme misery or discomfort” as is the word “hell” is also defined. Misery stands for grief and worry families feel for the soldiers at war. On the other hand misery is a feeling of disgust and sickness of those who oppose the war. John Crawford “Handouts” from his memoir of “The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell” explores war in not just the sense you get from a retired military eye, nor the one you get from a washed up reporter who sits behind a desk and has never seen a day of life beyond the wire in a combat zone. But he gives a story of war from a first-hand view of the occupation of an infantry soldier in the military. He provides raw literature of the true side of war. Crawford describes so elegantly the locals of this third world country of Iraq. Such details like when Crawford say’s “I cradled the mildewed and lice-infested blankets into my arms”, in reference to his assistance of helping a local national during a rainstorm.
John Crawford gives readers a no limits look on his views and his perspective on “War”, the Iraq war more specifically. Crawford describes the...

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