War is one of the most powerful threats we have on the Earth today. War can bring about a variety of things in a variation of different ways and it is completely up to the government to decide a country's war position. It is up to individuals that will under no circumstances have to experience what they have created, but what happens to the soldiers they send in to battle for them and their families. For the soldiers they are trapped with an involvement unlike any other known to man, stuck with memoirs and images of what it's like to be hunted by an opposing soldier. Different types of people take different effects away from the warfront and are affected in diverse ways, but big changes after a war are unavoidable. In the stories “The Red Convertible” and “Home Soil”, the authors tell what it’s like for soldiers that come back home and what kind of change they may experience. These stories tell you about the psychosomatic changes that take place in a soldier’s mind and how war affects their personalities and manners.
The book “Home Soil” is a story of a son and fathers, which were both armed forces in two very different wars and it also, tells of the changes that took place in them after both of their war experiences. Before going into the war the son, Bohdan, was an outward-bound young man. He was just like a regular guy that loved to have fun, in high school he started playing the bongos to try to make himself more popular with the girls. He taught himself after getting all of his basics from a record called "Let’s Swing the Bongos". He took both of them both to war when he went, and both of the books returned broken symbolizing the changes in his previous personality. His father pointed out to him that he now walks like a soldier with a firm walk and that all his baby fat has disappeared leaving nothing but a tall lean soldier. Bob as he is called has also taken up smoking and smokes them in fear, as he would on the battlefield in fear of what's around the next corner or what could happen next.
Jimmy Carter once said “War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” This means that even though we see war as being unavoidable, war is under no circumstances ever going to be a noble thing. We will never grow as a complete world as long as we keep butchering each other’s youth. The children are the ones fighting in the wars of the world today and many may not even get to see what they’re fighting for. The insinuations that war brings a sense of ultimate power and security to the victorious country of war does not make up for the suffering, the mental disorders, and the emotional detachment issues our soldiers face once they come back home at the end of the day.
Trauma can be experienced one of two ways, physical trauma, meaning being injured or hurt on the external or mental trauma, which is experienced inside...
