Buried in recessed rocks, hear the bullets flying, and then I hear the booming of the cannon and the marching of the troops coming in. I´m trying to find for my survival that all I wanted to do is to get back home safe. Kerbs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas he was enlisted in the Marines in 1917(1). After the war was declared over Kerbs stayed at the Rhine until the second division went home in the summer(1). Finally, he returned to his hometown in Oklahoma and the greetings of the heroes were over(3). The short story “Soldier’s Home” made me think about all the soldiers who miss home or have no family to recognize them in their glory in which what they’re doing for our nation. This shows how all of the men and women miss …show more content…
This reminds me in paragraphs four and five the lies Krebs makes is a person who is fallen or injured they are not important those people are overlooking them. This reminds me of the relationship of Krebs and his sister when they have fights together. Also, this love is reminded between him and his sister when at the kitchen table eating breakfast and finally that conversation turned into a fight(16). Finally Krebs goes to his sisters indoor baseball game to watch as he was …show more content…
You can drive it wherever you want whenever you want and end out where you was to be, somewhere safe(18). This relates by changing or running to another place to shot to defend our people. Men dodging bullet would get hit and that is a reason some of them got injured or killed trying to help other wounded soldiers. Also the father only allows Krebs to drive the car only at night and that factor shows how you were never aloud to let your guard down while in battle or war(18). His father gives him the car at night, because Krebs father and mother are worried about
I guess in a way a Soldier can always understand the life of another Soldier. The people really never change, just the times. It caused me to reflect on my military experiences greatly; the pain, the suffering, the life and the death. The man who once resided at that marker might not have been much different than me. Maybe he had a wife, kids, and aspirations.
Today, when I woke up, I felt an odd feeling. It was a mixture of profound proudness and desperate sadness. Today, was the day we said our goodbyes and grieved as we laid our brother and friend to rest in his decorated coffin of Navy Seal emblems reflecting off of the sunshine. For me, personally, it was a day where I said goodbye to my best friend, first man of my wedding and godfather of my children, Lieutenant Dave Johnson. As we surrounded the grieving family who just lost their 27 year old son, who died one week earlier, battling for his life in the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
In Tobias Wolff’s Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories, lies a gem in the rough called “Soldier’s Joy,” which is a short story about a Vietnam War veteran named Hooper who is adapting to life on the base post-war. Hooper is trying to get his life together little by little, but nothing is going back together the way it should in his mind. This was a problem for a lot of Vietnam War veterans post-war because of all the things they saw firsthand and they had no idea how to handle the things they saw on their own. They had no idea how to handle all of the destruction, chaos, and death they saw, so most of them took to their own ways of coping with everything they saw or even did during the war.
Unfortunately, World War I took a drastic turn towards Harold Krebs mentality. Returning to a town that has no care in the truth makes Harold Krebs disgusted making his leave easier to make. Constantly having to lie and repress his new self to the world was nauseous enough for Krebs. The psychological theory shows that Harold Krebs became a stranger to himself, society, and family; therefore, his detachment of society will help him discover himself.
Krebs came home two years later than the other veterans in his town. He doesn’t get the welcome home that the other men got. Krebs experiences emotional numbness from both the war and how people treated him when he returned
Synopsis This poem by Ron Tranmer shows great patriotism by describing how we should value the soldiers that fight for our country more. Tranmer talks about men fighting for our freedom. Thinking about this makes you wonder about how men will leave their families, their children, and everything else precious to them behind, just to serve for our country. Tranmer uses parallelism to tell us why soldiers are so valuable.
soldiers are constantly dying in wars many of them never return home. Many of the soldiers never return home for proper burial or even to be properly identified. The family never gets to see their loved one again. Their loved ones were never told by a doctor that their time was near. They were not one last chance to say “good-bye” or “I love you”.
Do you know someone who served in the military? I do, Bernard Monaghan. He always knows how to put a smile on other people’s faces, from joining the military, or just passing them on the highway hauling a tractor! Life’s not perfect even though, he said nothing was ever wrong. He joined the military when he was twenty years old.
The car in ‘Soldiers Home” shows the change in Krebs by showing how he was before and after the war. Before the war he wanted to drive and be more active and have a life after he chose to be lazy and not be part of his life like wanting to drive. “Speaking of Courage” starts the book around the lake and is told throughout the the whole of the story. The lake symbolizes the past and how it revolves around in his life still and helps him reflect on the future and how he wants to keep moving in his
Krebs life is forever changed. He needs to move on but has a difficult time doing so. He lives in his childhood home when he returns home. Krebs battles a sort of depression, staying in bed often, never going out, and just being detached. At one point when asked by his mother if he loves her he says no.
He suffered through the nasty habit of war. He suffered, survived, and came back to tell the most heart-wrenching story I have ever read. This man’s name is Marcus Luttrell, former Navy SEAL and the author of the novel, The Lone Survivor. After reading this heartbreaking and inspirational story, I was left utterly astounded and
Krebs received the coldest welcome out of all the soldiers in town, thereby receiving little to no thanks for his service. He didn’t seem to be all too concerned with that aspect, but as a soldier we can gather that he felt used by his own town and neglected. This place he calls home is more like a cell that only he and his other soldiers endure as they try to resume their lives in regular society; and this hits Krebs hard. His ambition was lost in the war, and the tasks of everyday life seem trivial now.
Krebs will experience a clash of his two lives that are significantly different. Hemingway clearly illustrates the contrast of Krebs’ two lives, “There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar…. There is a picture which
I felt really good recognizing the military families. It is not only the people who serve in the military, but their families also. Yes, it is their family member who goes through weeks and weeks or training, then fights for their country and what they believe in to protect their loved ones. The soldiers’ family also has to go without their family member and pray that everything will be okay, or that the soldiers will not get called into battle. When they wake up, they have no idea of what they will face, which is taking a risk, but those are things that the soldiers are willing
Some people think that the soldiers are simply liabilities trying to drain government funds with their “PTSD” and “Depression”. However, if someone witnessed an explosion big enough to destroy two blocks, or saw a soldier dying on their way to the airport, perhaps they would understand. It made me feel bad, because I never supported the veterans’ cause. I never donated, or bought poppies. The dark reality struck me as I realized how inconsiderate and foolish I had been for my fifteen years of existence.