Editor's Choice of Essays
Forgiveness in a Time of War
A Reflection on July 4th, 2007
War and forgiveness. The two concepts seem mutually exclusive, don't they? How can they have anything to do with each other? We're told that we're at war, and that to win a war we must be resolute, we must be stalwart and certain of the righteousness of our cause, and we must be clear about our purpose, which is to...
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America's Gigantic Blunder: The Continued Occupation of Iraq
America’s Gigantic Blunder: The Continued Occupation of Iraq.
By: Adam Lewis
Professor Duvalle, Daniel
English 102.54
12/05/2006
The sun blazed down on the sweaty infantrymen as they piled into the back of the humvee grumbling and joking as they started another, in what seemed to them a series of never ending patrols. The temperature hovered around 130 degrees and the sun cooked everything in its...
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The 5 Rs for military families and the troops; Retention, Recruitment, Recovery, Replenish, Repolitics
I just learned we have another family member, National Guard, who deployed to Iraq this week. To my knowledge, we now have 4 in our family in military service, 3 have deployed to Iraq of which 2 are returning Iraq veterans facing second deployments to Iraq under Stop Loss. That is in my immediate family.
I'm in contact with many military...
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The Truth About War Stories
As a veteran, I can appreciate Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried" on a personal level. A passage from one chapter in particular, “How to Tell a True War Story,” stands out in this collection of vignettes set during the Vietnam War.
A six-man patrol climbs into the mountains to man a listening post....
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Refugees
Julianna Tesfu
English 101
Professor Eichner
Her name is Bethelehem Gebregziabhier, and she he had been born a victim of the Ethiopian-Eritrean war. Being a mixture of both races Bethelehem was confused as to which side to be on. The violence...