Research Draft

Research Draft

                This research draft paper is about combining my two theories on story telling history and military.  What my paper is about is how soldiers have chosen different ways to tell their stories.  I picked three wars for my research they are World War One, Vietnam, and War on Terror. The reason behind the three is that even with as dark as war is soldiers see the need to tell their story. After WW1 soldiers would not wright books or really even talk about it due to what they seen. There were some that would come forth and talk about it unfourtanly today almost all of the last WW1 soldiers are no longer with us. With Vietnam soldiers there were afraid to tell their story due to anti-war movements and how they were treated when they came home. My father was one of those soldiers and when he tells his story you can hear the sadness in his tone to tell his story.   Today’s soldiers want people to know their stories of what they did. They are not trying to get the glory of telling their story.  What they want is for the younger generations to see what war is like.

               

              My intent is to not only talk about the history side but also the personal side of it. For the earlier generations we have lost so much living history that we will never get back. With most of the WW1 veterans past away we will never be able to hear their stories. With the more modern day wars we have the chance to save those stories for the future generations.   I named my paper “Living History” for those who have served and are still telling their story.  Once those who are telling their story’s lived in war and were part of a change in history from the trench soldiers in WW1 to the government workers flying unman aircraft from home. They all have a story to tell and once there gone so is their story.

Sources

On the Front Line: True World War I Stories [NOOK Book], by Jon E. Lewis

World War One Short Stories ,by Bob Blaisdell (Editor)

Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict, by 

Michael Lind

Vietnam: A View From the Frontlines,  by  Andrew Wiest

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History, by Chris Kyle

No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy Seal: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden, by Mark Owen

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