War is about camaraderie because it binds the soldiers with a common experience. The military serves as a surrogate family. The soldiers eat together, sleep together, smoke together, and fight in trenches together. Spending hours with each other, helps to form a type of bond that only one could gain through life or death fighting situations. They have put their lives in each other's hands ever since day one of boot camp when they had to learn to work as a unit in order to complete their daily mission. They came into boot camp not knowing anything about each other’s strengths or weaknesses. From there, they were stripped of all things that separated them and given the same uniform in order to instill unity. Going into the war, they now had the familiarity and trust that a unit needed to be successful on missions. This picture is of my grandfather lying on crates of C- rations. As you can see, he is able to goof around with his friends even in times of war. The shadow at the bottom of the picture indicates that my grandfather had friends who cared enough to share his memories of the war. The tents in the background show how they slept as brothers. The largest tent shown in the picture was of their mess hall where they shared all their meals together. My grandfather is smoking a cigarette, a common outlet to socialize with others. Although he is alone in the picture, he is never alone because his band of brothers are always with him, giving him support, encouragement, and friendship.Wednesday, March 23, 2016
War is Camaraderie
War is about camaraderie because it binds the soldiers with a common experience. The military serves as a surrogate family. The soldiers eat together, sleep together, smoke together, and fight in trenches together. Spending hours with each other, helps to form a type of bond that only one could gain through life or death fighting situations. They have put their lives in each other's hands ever since day one of boot camp when they had to learn to work as a unit in order to complete their daily mission. They came into boot camp not knowing anything about each other’s strengths or weaknesses. From there, they were stripped of all things that separated them and given the same uniform in order to instill unity. Going into the war, they now had the familiarity and trust that a unit needed to be successful on missions. This picture is of my grandfather lying on crates of C- rations. As you can see, he is able to goof around with his friends even in times of war. The shadow at the bottom of the picture indicates that my grandfather had friends who cared enough to share his memories of the war. The tents in the background show how they slept as brothers. The largest tent shown in the picture was of their mess hall where they shared all their meals together. My grandfather is smoking a cigarette, a common outlet to socialize with others. Although he is alone in the picture, he is never alone because his band of brothers are always with him, giving him support, encouragement, and friendship.
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ReplyDeleteYour use of a real photograph and a relative who served in a war to create a sort of backbone for your statement blends smoothly with what you're trying to say.
ReplyDeleteYour war is statement was very original and insightful. You did a great job listing a lot of ways in which soldiers gain camaraderie, such as sleeping together and fighting together. However, I do not think this picture depicts this idea. It is an awesome picture of your grandfather,but I do not think it says much about camaraderie, because it causes the reader to make too many inferences. For example, you said, "The shadow at the bottom of the picture indicates that my grandfather had friends who cared enough to share his memories of the war." All the shadow proves is that there was a camera man taking this photo, it is very difficult to infer that the shadow shows your grandfather had a ton of friends within his platoon. I also think when you talked about the soldiers being ready to go to war after they have gone through the training with their platoon, you should have explained why the training prepares them, rather than just saying it does. Overall, Your analysis on why the war causes camaraderie was solid and clear, but your picture depicts very little about camaraderie.
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