#11

From the readings Gottschall presents that its not possible to write a genuinely honest memoir. In chapter 8 talks about how memory becomes increasingly unreliable as we get older. I think for one reason that we have a hard time recalling things is that when we get older our minds have so many memory’s that it’s hard to find that one we are looking for. Gottschall does refer to the example of “Fraudulent” authors saying that traumatic events through time. For me I have too many traumatic events that I have lived through on  hand I find it hard to believe Gottschall but on the other I can because at times I will relive those memories and find new things in them that were not there in the first place. For me I see all story’s  a little different. on my history side I look at how story’s has change history from a badly written book that came from Russia turned into a war to kill one religion because they were trying to take over. On the military side I see it as this is how honor our fallen hero’s by telling how brave they were and how they fought to the end.  In my life I try sometimes to live up to those stories of people who did brave things. This last summer I was up at Fort Lewis for Rotc. I had to climb up a 57ft tall tower and grab a zip line and free hang over 200ft. Not going to lie but it scared the pants off of me. I started to think what would my hero’s do. Just thinking of my hero’s got me to do the slide I think if it was not for that I would have not done it. Just as a side note there was no safety net or anything just a lake that was not very deep.  

Latest update to follow on my oral history and the military. I have drill over the weekend and I was able to talk to some of my fellow soldiers in the company. Some of the stories that they have told me were funny, sad, and downright amazing. I find their stories to amazing because nowhere in the world can a person find out so much about something from the people that were there and lived it. One thing that gets me every time talking to those guys is that I missed out on that deployment due to my son being born I wish I would have gone but to hear what they did and that they understand why I had to miss it makes it better but I do wish I could have been in what the Army calls “The Suck”.  I do not have any sources only from fellow soldiers which I have about 10 for now and they are being added to my paper.