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 ('_').
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.
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ReplyDeleteI knew about returning soldiers's stories from the war. However, this video made me, we more need to care and to think about who had emotional disorders. I was suprised that there were a shortage of mental health professionals to provide services. I wish the U.S government must to help them and to care more than now.
This video was so sad and helpless story. The war effects to young people(soldiers) so badly. Even the U.S government also let them leve like neglect. Finally, they live in the jail. Ofcoures, they had attected and killed person. But, also, they were victim too by the war.
I know human can be changed by certain environment, and it could happen for me. This case is war, so that's influence is beyond my imagenation. I'm very sorry for them. The U.S should take care of them. The best way is not to break out war, but it might hapen again, so government must has good system for it. War is terrible. To kill people is too abnormal.
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