Week 7 : Memorial Day

1.Link :

http://video.pbs.org/video/1497566525

2.Summany for what i listened to :

The Wounded Platoon.

The video tell the story about lives of soldiers in platoon in Iraq after war. Specially, about soldiers in third platoon, in all, 15 out of 42 soldiers from third platoon left the army after a single Iraq tour, 4 were kicked out for failing drug tests, one was sent to prison for driving while drunk and fleeing the scene of an accident, 5 were medically discharged, 5 left the army because their service had ended. Lives of soldiers after war are not easy like what we think, they might face with depressing, anxiety, paranoia. Things that they experienced in war follow them, and they start using drug, alcohol, or smoking marijuana. They called all these things are psychological problems, PTSD. However, soldiers have psychological problems will be served by military medicine, not of them can get over their problems, so some would lose control and do something crazy or even criminal  such as killing. Nevertheless, some soldiers in third platoon who didn’t have psychological problems have had better lives now. These soldiers now are nursing student, an engineer, weapon tester. 

3. I listened this video for 1 hour and 30 minutes. 

4. My response : 

_ Actually, at first, i thought that this video talk about a memorial day, so i chose it. However, when i started watching it, i seemed to be swept into soldiers stories. After saw this video, i feel that soldiers in platoon are very brave. They are brave because i couldn't care about the death and use their lives to protect people and prevent bomb assaults. Moreover, they are really so poor because experiences in war will follow them through their lives, and this is really a very expensive cost. In short, honestly, even though they are not soldiers from my country, i feel admire them a lot. Hope you guys have good lives, soldiers in third platoon ('_').

5. Vocabulary : 

1. platoon (noun) : a small group of soldiers which is part of a company. 

2. murder (verd) : to kill someone deliberately and illegally. 

3. regiment (noun) : a large group of soldiers.   

Introduction (^.^)

Hi my classmates,

First, my name is Ngoc Nguyen, but you can call me Sammy. I'm very glad to study with you  guys this quarter :)

My real name has a special meaning. Ngoc means gem, and i'm a gem that is very precious to my parent. About my nickname, nothing is particular, i took it just because it's easy to call.

I'm from Vietnam, and I was born in Ho Chi Minh City. I also grew up in Ho Chi Minh City, and my family is living there. There are six people in my family included me, i have one sister and two brothers, and i'm the youngest one. My father passed over 3 years ago, and my mom is now 49 year old.

My mom has a small hotel, but my siblings don't like to manage it. Therefore, my plan is that i will study business, and after i graduate university in the US, i'm going to go back to my country and manage my mom's hotel. My dream is that i will manage and extend it bigger.

Beside the plan about business, i'm very interested in hair dresser. I'm going to study about hair dresser after i finish business, and i will be able to have an hair salon beside managing my mom's hotel.

 That's all about myself i can tell you guys. :):):)