https://padlet.com/21ehaggberg/45cbgmi9gzv1 War info for Mrs. Clarksons 6th hour class en-us 2018-12-07 20:01:35 UTC 2024-10-05 12:10:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png 21ehaggberg https://padlet.com/21ehaggberg/45cbgmi9gzv1/wish/315015013 I chose the chapter speaking of courage because I feel it needed to explain what happens after the war is over. I fell that when a war ends, the pain and suffering doesn't always end for all soldier. The things they saw and the conditions they lived through is something most people could never even imagine doing. The Americans who stayed home during the war got to come home to a bed at night, and the next day goes to a mellow job. They didn't have to risk their lives every day, they didn't have to watch their close friends die in horrible ways. So when they got back they felt like no one was behind them, everyone was against the war but those people also didn't support the people that had to go. The people protesting just seen it as war, they didn't see the people that had to go overseas and what they had to do to just live each day. It is understandable why it was hard for Norman Bowker to talk when this is what he came home too. As a teen, we can connect with Norman, we feel as though we have no one to talk to about our drama. Then we can compare that to the feelings he had, we couldn't imagine holding in the pains of war, the feelings he had, the things he say that he couldn’t talk about. I feel that's why he just continued to drive because he didn't know who to talk to, his life had to pause so he could go to war, yet everyone back home, his old girlfriend even his dad, their lives continued every day he was gone and when he got back, it still continued. No one made a point to ask him about what had happened if he was okay if he needed or wanted to talk. They just expected that everything, his thoughts, feelings, ways of life, everything would go back to normal. That why I think this chapter is so important because we need to see that stuff like this happens every day and all the sadness of Norman was real. And because of this sadness and no one to talk to, he took his own life. ]]> 2018-12-16 21:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/21ehaggberg/45cbgmi9gzv1/wish/315015013 21ehaggberg https://padlet.com/21ehaggberg/45cbgmi9gzv1/wish/315015166 I read about the hippies and protesters of the Vietnam war. In the article, it explained the role the hippies played. The hippies were not protesters, but they did help the protester along and were against the war. The biggest time the hippies were active was in 1967 this time was named the summer of love. The hippies did things like gave protesters signs. Another huge thing hippies did was helped some people that didn't want to be drafted escape. They had completely free stores where those going off the grid could go when they needed clothes, food, pan, or basically any needed living essential. These stores were free because everything in the stores has been stolen.  This article opened my eyes to the things that were happening back home while the war was going on. ]]> 2018-12-16 21:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/21ehaggberg/45cbgmi9gzv1/wish/315015166 21ehaggberg https://padlet.com/21ehaggberg/45cbgmi9gzv1/wish/315019982 1. One thing that sticks out to me is that the one sitting on the yellow "tractor" is my great uncle George. Another thing that sticks out to me is how calm and mellow they look because most of the time when we talk about the war everyone thinks of ambushes, fighting, people losing their lives and soldiers going MIA. Most people forget about the others who were in the war that didn't shoot or kill.
2. In this picture my great uncle George is driving a tracter that moves airplanes on the ship "The Coral Sea" 
3. This photo was taken in 1973, on the airplane carrier, "The Coral Sea" the carrier at the time was stationed in the Tonkin Gulf. My Great uncle and his buddy, Ken Savanko, were ABHAMs. their job was to bring the planes from where they were stored to the deck where they would take off. The hitch like thing on the front of the, what they called, tractor would hook onto the airplanes so they could pull them around. 
4. I learned from this image, personally what my great uncle did in the war. another thing I learned was that not everything about the war is blood and killing people. also that there need to be a lot of people behind sense helping making everything possible. to make sure the soldiers are safe on the front line people needed to help off the front line. ]]> 2018-12-16 22:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/21ehaggberg/45cbgmi9gzv1/wish/315019982 21ehaggberg https://padlet.com/21ehaggberg/45cbgmi9gzv1/wish/315022986 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/39280/at-the-vietnam-memorial]]> 2018-12-16 22:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/21ehaggberg/45cbgmi9gzv1/wish/315022986