Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Dontae's Topic: Troops coming home from Iraq

6 comments:

  1. Well the troops coming home is a wonderful thing. All the families that get their men and women back from Iraq can only bring them millions of feelings. bliss, joy, relief and happiness

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  2. Coming home is the best thing that can happen.Because they was gone for a long time and to celebrate that there back and made it through the war is marvelous so many words can describe how I feel and the peoples that had family over there fighting for our country feel.

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  3. "The veteran’s view of home becomes the dream of memory, and the definition of home changes. Home for me was seven months in a pup tent on the packed dust of the Iranian border, Al Kut, and Babylon. Then I came home to America. Then I left home, and home was a concrete dog kennel in Ramadi that we bleached and put cots in, a shelter from mortars, rockets, and snipers. Then I came home again. Some veterans can’t comprehend home anymore. They have been trained that survival is their own responsibility, that they must keep their distance, ask for nothing, expect nothing. Kept in war too long, they are lost in their own homeland."
    www.thedailybeast.com

    -Dontae

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  4. the significance of troops coming home is that it has been a long deadly battle. it has been 10 years since they first went to war and a lot of good people have lost their limbs and even there lives. the people most concerned with the soldiers coming home besides the soldiers themselves are their families. they have given up so much so their loved ones can fight for their country. the reactions of people when the soldiers come home will be that of a wonderful celebration

    - Dontae

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  5. My niece came home from Iraq some two years ago. She has had a very difficult time adjusting to living back in the States. She has spent all the money she earned in the Army on partying and drugs and is suffering from an addiction to crack-cocaine. We, that is, her family, have a hard time talking with her. She's closed off to sharing her emotions.

    I imagine that many troops are going through a difficult time trying to adjust to life outside of the military.

    I've also read a few articles recently about how troops are having a hard time finding work in this tough economy.

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  6. As the soldiers point of view of home fades into the dark shadows of their brain, they are gently snatched back to it, just expected to adapt back to civilian life style. i think that some of those soldiers will not be able to, because of this war.

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