Blog Revision

War destroys not only people and their homes but it destroys the minds of the people that give their lives to protect America.  As Americans, we should take measures to make sure the sanity of our troops and make sure that they can safely come back into the general population.

We have all heard war stories about how you never come back the same after you have been in a war, and I’ve come to find that this is only half of the story.  In the book An American Warrior by Gary O’Neal is an actual soldier who has served his whole life in different levels of the American army and marines.  He said, “War does things to a man that causes them to do things they never thought they would.  This is coming from someone who has served in wars and has seen things many have not.  How will someone like that be able to all of a sudden walk down the street and not be mentally disturbed?   Having former soldiers abruptly go from the change of being in battle to everyday life is not only dangerous for themselves, but for others around them.

War destroys the minds of the soldiers by haunting them for the rest of their lives.  This is serious because if soldiers are hallucinating, he or she could kill someone around them for no particular reason.  When we think of hallucination, we think of dreams or mirages, but his is downright haunting.  In the book American Warrior, Gary O’Neal said, “I sometimes wake up screaming, hearing my children screaming for me to help but I can’t.  I can’t release classified information even though my family and I are being tortured.  I want to help my children, but my training tells me my mission is worth more than anything.    I never knew war could destroy people to the point they choose a mission over their family.

I believe that implementing extensive therapy programs and life coaching could easily solve problems like these.  This would solve these problems  by taking a deeply rooted military ways and extracting them from the person’s natural extinct and bring them back to their civilian ways.  This way the troops can live happier and safer, as well as insuring the safety of people around them.

This is how war destroys not only the people in their homes but the minds of the people that give their lives to protect America.