Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Black Hawk down
what to say i have read the book before but every time i read it gets better. the views on the book in my group are varied some think its more brutal than A Long Way Gone some dont, i think that it is a different view on the horrors of war and killing with out thinking about doing it. thats what our soldiers are trained to do i know first hand that veterans are different in some way from civies i feel that the reason that it is a different kind of brutal is that in LWG its a child doing the killing and there are some serious drugs involved, but in this book there are no drugs and its adults well sort of most of the soldiers that see battle these days are kids not juvinials but still boys. the book is good so far it is a little repetitive with the way the chapters start but over all i think that it is a good reminder of what our soldiers have to go through just so i can read a book, or write a blog let alone on a computer that i own.
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I agree, I can see how you view the soldiers as making their own decisions while in LWG the boys were drugged up. I can see these morale decisions will probably take a mental toll on the soldiers later in their lives.
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