When i first began looking for someone to interview, I wasn’t sure who I would interview, since I did not know any veterans. I found Professor Curley through the university. It was awkward at first because I was interviewing someone I did not know at all. I was not sure how sensitive he would be [...]
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Interview Blog
There were many interesting aspects of my interview that taught me a lot. First off, I never knew how extensively the GI Bill had changed my grandfathers life. As I explained in class he almost felt undeserving of the money and respect he gained being a veteran. This was due to the fact that he [...]
Veteran
Compared to what I heard during class, he was fairly average with his experiences. He was drafted and then choice to stay in the army after the war since his family was not so understanding. He saw the problems with the VA hospitals since he decided to volunteer there. He keeps up with some of [...]
Writing the Paper
Tips for those about writing this paper:
1. Write your thesis BEFORE your interview. If you have your thesis or even introduction to your paper, you know where to lead your interview.
2. Prepare specific questions for the interview before it takes place. Make sure the questions are specific enough to get your interviewee talking. The questions [...]
Rest of Chapters
The chapters that we read for this particular blog was spread out over the course of several American Wars. Chapters 6 and 7 had their major focus on the Revolutionary War. In particular it had a special interest in the pensions recieved by the veterans of this war. In fact it was noted that vets [...]
Greatest Generations Ch. 7
I thought it was interesting how the public found the end of the Korean War to be a “relief.” The public had had their fill of war and were just waiting for the veterans to return to normal again. The quote at the beginning of chapter 7 was astonishing to me. The man from the 24th Infantry Division was [...]
Coming Home From Korea
From chapter 7 of The Greatest Generations Comes Home, the men were more willing to fight in the Korean War. During the last war, it was in light of the Great Depression, yet now the men were fighting for the booming postwar economy. Though the men were willing to be involved in this war against [...]
Female Veteran Interviews
Reading about the experiences of these female veterans was so interesting. Regina Schiffman was a member of the Army Nurse Corps during the Korean War. She enjoyed being in the Army and was an operating room nurse Listening to here account of the war was interesting because she referred to Korea as “camping.” She loved being a [...]
Yay for women!
As I was listening to the mother say how her leaving her child affected him…I mean of course the kid was sad that his mother was gone, but what about when fathers are gone…I kinda feel as if they only are paying attention to kids whose mothers leave to fight in wars and never bothered [...]
The Korean War
The Korean War as seen in Remembering War the American Way seems very odd to me to say the least. The fact that the war is referred to as police action is simply an excuse for the government to show the severety of this war. Any time troops are used like this there is no [...]
Remembering War The American Way
I think it is interesting how the government was not willing to recognize Korea as a war It was a ”police action,” which many would argue is a war nonetheless. I can’t help but think about how the veterans of the Korean War felt, knowing that their service in what they thought was a war, [...]
Remembering the War
About the MIA men. How could the government not find them. I understand that yes, they may not know where to look for them, but why not talk more with other government? How can you tell families that their loved ones are dead, when they really could be alive. If I were them, I would [...]
Across the Universe
I confess, I really liked this movie. So much that I saw the beginning of it twice in the theatre in Rīga, and didn’t see the last twenty minutes until I rented it this summer.
But where it becomes relevant, for anyone who hasn’t seen it, is that one of the major subplots (there are a [...]
Remembering
One thing that struck me as weird in this reading was the idea of ‘homecoming’ parades in the 80’s. I realize the idea is ‘better late than never’ but I feel like that’s a really awkward attempt at making things right. I wonder whether that doesn’t do more harm than good, the way a consolation prize [...]
Vietnam
The story of My Lai really disturbs me. I am never for wars and this is why. Monsterous things are allowed to happen and many people have mob mentalities and nothing is done. Hundreds of innocent women and children civilians were killed by American soldiers. They used Calley as a scape goat, and he only [...]
Oliver Twist Wants More
And why shouldn’t he?
I was actually discussing this whole topic in the car with my Dad the other day (I went home over the weekend) and so now I have plenty to say about it. I haven’t finished all the reading yet, as of this posting, but I always pick a specific aspect to talk [...]
Born on the Fourth of July 2
This book was by far my favorite. The story was a real story, one told from a soldiers life. It was not just a passage written on his experience, but his whole story. From start to finish. I think that’s why it made such a big impact on me.
Reading the passages on the training was [...]
Born on the Fourth of July Part 2
I have to say, I truly enjoyed reading this book. It put the life of a veteran into perspective. Kovic wrote this book for a reason, to show everyone the truth of what happened after Vietnam. He did not sugar-coat anything; sometimes people may wonder why Kovic wrote about a specific thing in his book [...]
Born On The Fourth Of July part 2
This was a pretty intense read. I didn’t know much about the Vietnam war or what went on there, and although I wasn’t surprised particularly by anything I read, it was still kind of difficult to read about such terrible things in such detail. It’s also difficult to see what happens through the eyes of [...]
Born on the Fourth of July
From the first sentence, this book is full of great details. You feel as if you are right there with Ron Kovic, which in itself a scary thought.
In the first chapter he talks about how his life was saved by a black man. The black man name stays unknown to him. I feel like this [...]
Born on the 4th of July
All I can say after reading this book is that I am shocked. I am shocked by the way the soldiers were treated in the hospital. I am shocked by the horrible scenes of war and in the hospital Kovic describes. I think this is the first author I have read who has been so [...]
Greatest Generation / Wages of War
In the reading there was a lot of focus on the rights of minorites (namely blacks) and women during WWII. For both groups there was a great change not only in the recognition they recieved as soldiers, but also great movements in civil rights. It could probably be argued that blacks recieved more recognition and [...]
Greatest Generations Ch. 4-6 & 8
It was interesting to read about women and minority veterans after World War 2. After reading about the women veterans, I was amazed at all that they had accomplished. Even though they still faced resistance because they were women, the female veterans were determined to rise above society and were willing to face obstacles to [...]
Greatest Genereations
I found chapter 8 the most interesting one that I read for this section. It started off, as said so many times before, as explaining that even though the veterans were in a peaceful environment, they were still at war in their heads. Some fathers had connections with their sons when their sons found their [...]
The Cloud Side of the Silver Lining
Up until now we’ve been talking about how much better things were going for veterans at this stage in history- how they were treated better than veterans of earlier wars and how things were looking up.
These chapters are like the asterisk at the end of that statement.
In the first chapter, we read about the experiences of female [...]
