Alone
The nightmare inside is hurting me deep,
My comrades falling down to their feet,
I think of times when they were alive,
I break down, I fall, I am alone,
It comes back to my mind whenever I sleep,
When I wake, there's a gun to my head,
I ask myself if this is real,
I relive this moment over again,
I dont understand how am I in battle,
I dont think, I just react,
This is war,
Screaming, yelling, aruging, is all that I do,
My memories are hurting me, causing me pain,
I am caught and captured, held in chains,
Tortured to death, bleeding like rain,
Please help me god, I need guidance,
To figure a way out, out of this pain,
For I am Alone.
This poem is about what people mainly soldiers feel when they experience PTSD. Basically anything can happen to them, from pain to death. I just want others to understand how hard PTSD can affect someone so badly to the point where they feel they can trust no one. They aren't alone, we are here.
http://animoto.com/play/F2SFw8DMNNVLk6cluAYL5A
Friday, May 4, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Self-Reflection
Moving forward from a high school environment, I know life will be hard but I’ll pull through, we all will. There will always be someone help you, but as you move on into a higher level of your post-secondary education, it can become a handful. There’s really no argument between what you’re going to experience during your years after high school but we just have to deal with it seeing it is our future.
The Capstone Project has taught me one thing; responsibility. Responsibility is the key to success in any form of education or whatever you’re going to do beyond high school such as enlisting in the military or getting a scholarship to a university. Upon completing this project, it has taught me to be more responsible in keeping myself on task of my assignments. I believe the upcoming seniors should be able to experience what the seniors of 2012 experienced. We all need responsibility in our lives, as it is what makes life easier.
Positives I like about this project is that it gives students the ability to think creatively and express their thoughts in their own individual way. It also gives students the idea of how projects in the future may be presented but in college curriculum. The negatives of this project that I believe in is that it is pressured on senior students to finish it. If you get a horrible grade on this project, you will fail this course because it has a high grade percentage.
Although I may not like this project, I believe it is a second chance for students to fix their mistakes. The project is a helping hand to those who have been slacking and are trying their best to graduate. The pressure to finish high school and graduate is being pushed towards us causing massive stress, but I believe I am ready for the outside world and I am doing whatever it takes to get graduate.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Analytical Writing Essay
PTSD
On a quiet Sunday night of March 11th, 2012, Sergeant Bales of the U.S. Army came in with full tactical gear and massacred sixteen Afghan villagers, nine of them children and seven adults. The alleged U.S. soldier walked approximately one mile away from his base and killed the villagers. Was it intentional for Sergeant Bales to kill the villagers? Robert Bales was stationed at Fort McChord before getting sent back overseas for another tour of Afghanistan. According to New York Times post, "More Scrutiny of Lewis-McChord" about Fort McChord, this joint-base has a history of not adequately treating servicemen who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (Yardley).
In the movie “Saving Private Ryan” (Spielberg) James Ryan revisits the graves of the men who saved his life. His tears shed down his cheek, understanding that the men he looks before his feet are the same men who saved his life. I believe in this scene, Private James Ryan suffered PTSD, seeing that he regret the decision he made, staying back. If he would have never stayed and left when Captain H. Miller asked him too, their men would have survived. Following Private Ryan, a flashback is started and goes back to when Captain Miller is on a boat, ready for the invasion of Normandy.
I suggest that the government needs to give more open therapy sessions towards the veterans. First of all, it would give more jobs to citizens as well as helping the veterans. We need to let these soldiers know that we are here for them, for which they have someone to talk to about their problems. Not only do the soldiers who come back need help, but also the families who deal with the problem held within their soldier. Service members who come back are trying their very best to learn how to adapt to their new environment of peace and quiet, not warfare. The government needs to provide a service of teaching family members the skills necessary to help military service members live the life back at home in the United States, not in Afghanistan nor Iraq.
Doctor Harry Croft of "Healthlyplace" stated that PTSD is a psychological and emotional disorder to the brain and sometimes follows a traumatic event that has occurred in that individual’s life. This particular event usually involves the death of someone close, close to dying themselves, or even serious bodily injuries that creates feelings of fear or helplessness. Some symptoms of PTSD include re-experiencing events of the trauma through upsetting images or memories and in most cases flashbacks. (Croft)
Doctor Harry Croft of "Healthlyplace" stated that PTSD is a psychological and emotional disorder to the brain and sometimes follows a traumatic event that has occurred in that individual’s life. This particular event usually involves the death of someone close, close to dying themselves, or even serious bodily injuries that creates feelings of fear or helplessness. Some symptoms of PTSD include re-experiencing events of the trauma through upsetting images or memories and in most cases flashbacks. (Croft)
The article “MaketheConnection” (Escovito) explains one soldiers experience with PTSD. Former Marine Corps Sergeant Bryan Escovito quoted “There was a time when there was just no laughing.” On October 11th, 2011, Bryan joined the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and talks about how PTSD can affect anyone and what you can do to resolve it. PTSD gives you the feeling of being emotionless or “numb” (Escovito). The disorder is most likely to develop among people who suffer from traumatic events, have less support, or fail to express their feelings to those who are comfortable talking about their problems.
In the states, about 30% of men and woman who have spent time in warzones suffer from PTSD. An additional 20-25% has had partial PTSD in their lives (Wheeler). PTSD is a common issue due to the fact that many veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are coming back. PTSD is a disorder that we have to start paying full attention to. If not, problems such as the massacre of the sixteen villagers may occur again but this time in the states. Who knows what will happen when they are back in the country. The government needs more programs and services to help the veterans live and adapt to their life coming back to the U.S. Professional psychiatrists believe that PTSD can be lowered or prevented by early encouragement of sharing an emotional experience, however scientific research has shown that sharing these problems have little effect to the disorder. Once the individual suffers from reoccurring events and trauma, the most effective solution is antidepressant medications. Although this idea is great, we cannot rely on this medication to simply ignore the problem. We need more accurate and effective programs to guarantee the provided positive service to the soldiers.
We are the most powerful military in the history of man. Today’s war; the Common Era in which we are learning to use modern tools of warfare is treacherous. Every fight is our fight and we are the ones who pay the price. Warfare means the brink of man, to our bodies and our brains and to this, PTSD becomes the enemy.
Saving Private Ryan. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Perf. Tom Hanks and Tom Sizemore. DreamWorks, 1998. DVD.
United States. Make the Connection. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. There Was Just a Time When There Was No Laughing. Bryan Escovito. Web
What Is PTSD? Perf. Doctor Harry Croft. Healthyplace, Janurary 4th, 2009. Clip.
Wheeler, Elizabeth. "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder." Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Nebraska Department of Veterans Affairs, 2007. Web. 01 May 2012. <http://www.ptsd.ne.gov/what-is-ptsd.html>.
Yardley, William. "Home Base of Accused Soldier Has Faced Scrutiny." New York Times. New York Times Company, 13 Mar. 2012. Web. 1 May 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/us/more-scrutiny-of-lewis-mcchord-home-base-of-accused-soldier.html>.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Annotated Bibliography
(2012, February 28). Panetta says Pentagon will reconsider how it deals with PTSD. KCPQ (Seattle).
The main idea of this article is that the government wants to find more useful ways of helping PTSD patients. They need to reexamine the resources and methods used in the operation of helping the patients.
What's helpful about this information is that they use non-consisting methods that do not help soldiers, but drastically reverses the level of care needed towards that specific personnel.
This article helps my research in a way because it show's the positive and negatives of certain Army Medical Centers. For instance, Madigan Army Medical Center located on Fort Louis are finding more effective ways of helping PTSD.
AGENCY GROUP, 0. (n.d). ARMY LOOKS TO ENSURE CONSISTENT PTSD DIAGNOSIS. FDCH Regulatory Intelligence Database.
What's important in this article is that the government is finding useless ways of helping patients of PTSD. They need to ensure and provide the medical care these soldiers deserve. They are not a labrat, they are human beings.
The methods they abide by are no longer applicable. Forensic psychiatry, which is a prevention of mental illnesses, is a method they use. Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho stated this way of diagnosing PTSD was not used in across "Army Medicine".
The following article helps my research because not only is my research about how to help PTSD, but about how the government is failing to do something about it. They need to find more efficient and effective ways of helping PTSD.
"Army Generals Speak out about Their PTSD." YouTube. YouTube, 09 Mar. 2009. Web. 03 Apr. 2012.
The main point of this short interview is how even U.S. Army Generals are open into talking about their problems with PTSD. Their main focus is helping other soldiers speak too, about their problems dealing with PTSD.
This short clip teaches how PTSD can effect anyone, even U.S. Army Generals. Brigadier General Gary S. Patton explain's how one soldier was shot in the torso. While Patton was treating the soldier, he died in his hands. As for Ham, a suicide bomber blew up in a mess tent, killing twenty-two soldiers, sailors and civilians. The reason being for why they talk about their problem is they're hoping other fellow soldiers too will come out behind the shadows and talk about them suffering from PTSD.
Emery, E. Robert. Post-traumatic stress disorder. (2012). In Encyclopedia Britannica.
This article states the general reasoning of PTSD and the social interaction of those suffering from PTSD and those who aren't. The article explains PTSD, but it does not explain how the government is funding clinics helping the patients. It reveals how the government doesn't care as much as they say they do.
Although this article lacks on what we can do to slow down PTSD, it does give great information on how it can be preventable. Learning that animals play a role in preventing PTSD is amazing. An example is petting a dog. It activates hormones in your brain, causing a reaction to give you a positive feeling. This simple activity helps patients, but the government is not too concerned with this.
I believe this will help my research because it gives general the aspects of PTSD. I need to advance my research about PTSD, knowing what little or large affects it may have on soldiers.
JAY LINDSAY - Associated, P. (2012). Mass. Iraq vet with PTSD finds new life at sea. AP Top News Package.
This article specifically states how fellow soldiers suffering from PTSD were looking for jobs while diagnosed with PTSD. A captain of the boat Iron Lady needed men that had both endurance and discipline. Soldiers looking for jobs and a captain looking for disciplined men meant happiness for the both. The captain clearly states, "My motives were both selfish, in that I wanted a good reliable, strong crew member, but also to do some good for some people that had done so much for us, put their lives on the line for us".
Reading through the article, it gave a positive description of how people helped soldiers with PTSD, if it was a act of selfishness or not. While reading this article, I didn't think the captain was being selfish at all. He understood the concept of PTSD. It was a win-win situation for the marines, and the captain himself. The soldiers were finding a way to deal with PTSD, while the captain had a reliable and well fit fishing crew.
The information within this article would be helpful towards my research because it gives details on how many soldiers have become jobless due to PTSD. They find ways of getting jobs, while under PTSD. Their lives are hard enough, we shouldn't be making it harder. I needed to find an effective and a more efficient way of what soldiers to do get by each day, and this is how they do it.
The book The Memory of You is about an prisoner of war captured during the Vietnam War. Six years later, he is reclaimed but during the gruesome years of torture, he has lost his memory. He doesn't recall anything before joining the Military. The Military informs Lieutenant Matthew Foster that he has a wife but he does not remember anything. But the thing is, his love back home is getting married and the military is soon to inform Abby that he is alive and coming back home.
In this book, I believe biased is being shown through Matthew's shoes. In the back of our heads, we want Matthew to find his love that he lost during the time of warfare. Even though Abby has moved on and found someone else, we believe that "love" will guide them back together and that there will be a happy ending.
"Lewis McChord Base Has History of Troubles." Interview by Melissa Block. Audio blog post. NPR. 13 Mar. 2012. Web.
This blog is about a U.S. Soldier killing sixteen villagers due to PTSD. He was sent to Lewis McChord Base for further treatment, but could not help him. The Army Sergeant walked at least one mile from his base, door after door searching and killing at least sixteen villagers, nine of them children.
The radio cast about this specific topic doesn't really have any sort of being bias. It is simply summarising and explaining what could be the cause of why this Staff Sergeant went on this killing spree, if it
was intentional or not.
Restrepo. Dir. Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger. Perf. The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team. Outpost Films, 2010. DVD.
Restrepo, the documentary about one platoon heading into the Korengal Valley. This film deals with PTSD because the documentary itself is named after a fallen medic, Private First Class Juan "Doc" Restrepo. The soldiers deal with hard labour, fallen comrades, and gunfights daily. The pain these soldiers go through is unbelievable, knowing now that they will have to live with this their whole life.
The following film does show some sort of evidence of being bias. One scene from the documentary shows that the soldiers killed a cow because it was trapped in barbed wire, making no choice but to end its life to let it suffer. Because we are Americans, my opinion towards this is that we really don't care about the villagers in Afghanistan, we only care about our soldiers fighting over sea's, letting them do what they want to do thinking its right but also wrong.
The documentary, Restrepo, will help forward my research in PTSD because of the fact that they literally went through hell. Two friendlies deceased, knowing in the back of their mind that they could have saved them will be some chain reaction into setting off PTSD.
Saving Private Ryan. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Prod. Steven Spielberg. By Robert Rodat. Perf. Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, and Tom Sizemore. DreamWorks Pictures, 1998. DVD
This film is based off of the Normandy invasion during World War II. Captain John H. Miller(Tom Hanks) and his platoon is ordered by Army Chief of Staff to locate one of the four brothers who are still fighting the war and bring him back home. All three of Private James Ryan's brothers are KIA, along with their mother who shall be receiving all three letters of their death on the same day.
In my opinion, Saving Private Ryan doesn't show that much bias. We do in the movie root for the Americans into finding Private James Ryan, but we aren't into favoring one individual group or comparing the U.S. Army to the German Army.
My research is involves this movie because I believe James Ryan suffered some sort of PTSD towards the beginning and ending of the film. The opening credits of the film, James Ryan visits the grave of Captain John H. Miller. Following that, the film went to a flashback of 1944, The invasion of Normandy, France. At the end of the film, it goes back to present day, as the last memory was of Captain H. Miller dying.
Tupper, Benjamin. Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country. New York: NAL Caliber, 2010. Print.
This book explains the real life adventure in Afghanistan of ETT(Embedded Training Team) Captain Benjamin Tupper. Tupper originally posted up each chapter daily as a blog on the Internet, but eventually grouped these blogs into one whole book. Greetings from Afghanistan shows the courage of the National Guard ETT life in Afghanistan, showing their commitment to the United States. These brave soldiers are doing what it takes to survive each day, doing their jobs.
In my opinion, this book shows an extreme amount of being bias but as well as not showing any. To Captain Tupper, he respects the Afghan people. The book gives a stereotype of the Afghan people, thinking they are all part of the Taliban, giving us the idea back in the states that they are bad. We root for the American forces overseas but we also have to reconsider thinking about the people of Afghanistan. They too are human, giving them the same edge as us Americans. We typically choose the side of the Americans because we are simply are Americans.
Greetings from Afghanistan: Send more Ammo helps my research improve because this book is based off of real events happening to the soldiers overseas. The book itself even has a chapter of PTSD, understanding what events that flash back into Tupper's life.
Wakefield, P. (n.d). PTSD Doubly Disabling for Female Vets. Human Rights: Journal Of The Section Of Individual Rights & Responsibilities, 35(2), 19.
This article is addressing that females are suffering worst from PTSD, and that risk is being doubled. Female active duty personnel are adopting PTSD not only from warfare, but from rape. Rape not from the Taliban, but the soldiers fighting beside them. There are only FOUR clinics that help women suffering from PTSD. In September of 2001 there were 177,000 Iraqi and Afghanistan females serving in the Military, now there are only 27,000. PTSD is a big impact on female soldiers.
Although this article talk's about females obtaining PTSD, it gives a false step into talking about how we can help the females other then sending them to clinics for medical help. I became frustrated when I heard how the females are suffering from PTSD not from warfare, quota "Almost a third of female veterans have reported having been sexually assaulted or raped while on active duty; many more experienced serious sexual harassment." The article states that females are sent to PTSD clinics, but it does not say how those who sexually assaulted female military personnel are dealt with. I was frustrated knowing this had happened.
The article itself will be helpful for my research because it gives an understanding of how little we see PTSD in female soldiers and how easy it is to suffer from it. Women deserve and need equal access to the Veterans Affairs.
The main idea of this article is that the government wants to find more useful ways of helping PTSD patients. They need to reexamine the resources and methods used in the operation of helping the patients.
What's helpful about this information is that they use non-consisting methods that do not help soldiers, but drastically reverses the level of care needed towards that specific personnel.
This article helps my research in a way because it show's the positive and negatives of certain Army Medical Centers. For instance, Madigan Army Medical Center located on Fort Louis are finding more effective ways of helping PTSD.
AGENCY GROUP, 0. (n.d). ARMY LOOKS TO ENSURE CONSISTENT PTSD DIAGNOSIS. FDCH Regulatory Intelligence Database.
What's important in this article is that the government is finding useless ways of helping patients of PTSD. They need to ensure and provide the medical care these soldiers deserve. They are not a labrat, they are human beings.
The methods they abide by are no longer applicable. Forensic psychiatry, which is a prevention of mental illnesses, is a method they use. Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho stated this way of diagnosing PTSD was not used in across "Army Medicine".
The following article helps my research because not only is my research about how to help PTSD, but about how the government is failing to do something about it. They need to find more efficient and effective ways of helping PTSD.
"Army Generals Speak out about Their PTSD." YouTube. YouTube, 09 Mar. 2009. Web. 03 Apr. 2012.
The main point of this short interview is how even U.S. Army Generals are open into talking about their problems with PTSD. Their main focus is helping other soldiers speak too, about their problems dealing with PTSD.
This short clip teaches how PTSD can effect anyone, even U.S. Army Generals. Brigadier General Gary S. Patton explain's how one soldier was shot in the torso. While Patton was treating the soldier, he died in his hands. As for Ham, a suicide bomber blew up in a mess tent, killing twenty-two soldiers, sailors and civilians. The reason being for why they talk about their problem is they're hoping other fellow soldiers too will come out behind the shadows and talk about them suffering from PTSD.
Emery, E. Robert. Post-traumatic stress disorder. (2012). In Encyclopedia Britannica.
This article states the general reasoning of PTSD and the social interaction of those suffering from PTSD and those who aren't. The article explains PTSD, but it does not explain how the government is funding clinics helping the patients. It reveals how the government doesn't care as much as they say they do.
Although this article lacks on what we can do to slow down PTSD, it does give great information on how it can be preventable. Learning that animals play a role in preventing PTSD is amazing. An example is petting a dog. It activates hormones in your brain, causing a reaction to give you a positive feeling. This simple activity helps patients, but the government is not too concerned with this.
I believe this will help my research because it gives general the aspects of PTSD. I need to advance my research about PTSD, knowing what little or large affects it may have on soldiers.
JAY LINDSAY - Associated, P. (2012). Mass. Iraq vet with PTSD finds new life at sea. AP Top News Package.
This article specifically states how fellow soldiers suffering from PTSD were looking for jobs while diagnosed with PTSD. A captain of the boat Iron Lady needed men that had both endurance and discipline. Soldiers looking for jobs and a captain looking for disciplined men meant happiness for the both. The captain clearly states, "My motives were both selfish, in that I wanted a good reliable, strong crew member, but also to do some good for some people that had done so much for us, put their lives on the line for us".
Reading through the article, it gave a positive description of how people helped soldiers with PTSD, if it was a act of selfishness or not. While reading this article, I didn't think the captain was being selfish at all. He understood the concept of PTSD. It was a win-win situation for the marines, and the captain himself. The soldiers were finding a way to deal with PTSD, while the captain had a reliable and well fit fishing crew.
The information within this article would be helpful towards my research because it gives details on how many soldiers have become jobless due to PTSD. They find ways of getting jobs, while under PTSD. Their lives are hard enough, we shouldn't be making it harder. I needed to find an effective and a more efficient way of what soldiers to do get by each day, and this is how they do it.
Kellogg, Laurie. The Memory of You. LK, 2012. Print.
The book The Memory of You is about an prisoner of war captured during the Vietnam War. Six years later, he is reclaimed but during the gruesome years of torture, he has lost his memory. He doesn't recall anything before joining the Military. The Military informs Lieutenant Matthew Foster that he has a wife but he does not remember anything. But the thing is, his love back home is getting married and the military is soon to inform Abby that he is alive and coming back home.
In this book, I believe biased is being shown through Matthew's shoes. In the back of our heads, we want Matthew to find his love that he lost during the time of warfare. Even though Abby has moved on and found someone else, we believe that "love" will guide them back together and that there will be a happy ending.
"Lewis McChord Base Has History of Troubles." Interview by Melissa Block. Audio blog post. NPR. 13 Mar. 2012. Web.
This blog is about a U.S. Soldier killing sixteen villagers due to PTSD. He was sent to Lewis McChord Base for further treatment, but could not help him. The Army Sergeant walked at least one mile from his base, door after door searching and killing at least sixteen villagers, nine of them children.
The radio cast about this specific topic doesn't really have any sort of being bias. It is simply summarising and explaining what could be the cause of why this Staff Sergeant went on this killing spree, if it
was intentional or not.
Restrepo. Dir. Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger. Perf. The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team. Outpost Films, 2010. DVD.
Restrepo, the documentary about one platoon heading into the Korengal Valley. This film deals with PTSD because the documentary itself is named after a fallen medic, Private First Class Juan "Doc" Restrepo. The soldiers deal with hard labour, fallen comrades, and gunfights daily. The pain these soldiers go through is unbelievable, knowing now that they will have to live with this their whole life.
The following film does show some sort of evidence of being bias. One scene from the documentary shows that the soldiers killed a cow because it was trapped in barbed wire, making no choice but to end its life to let it suffer. Because we are Americans, my opinion towards this is that we really don't care about the villagers in Afghanistan, we only care about our soldiers fighting over sea's, letting them do what they want to do thinking its right but also wrong.
The documentary, Restrepo, will help forward my research in PTSD because of the fact that they literally went through hell. Two friendlies deceased, knowing in the back of their mind that they could have saved them will be some chain reaction into setting off PTSD.
Saving Private Ryan. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Prod. Steven Spielberg. By Robert Rodat. Perf. Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, and Tom Sizemore. DreamWorks Pictures, 1998. DVD
This film is based off of the Normandy invasion during World War II. Captain John H. Miller(Tom Hanks) and his platoon is ordered by Army Chief of Staff to locate one of the four brothers who are still fighting the war and bring him back home. All three of Private James Ryan's brothers are KIA, along with their mother who shall be receiving all three letters of their death on the same day.
In my opinion, Saving Private Ryan doesn't show that much bias. We do in the movie root for the Americans into finding Private James Ryan, but we aren't into favoring one individual group or comparing the U.S. Army to the German Army.
My research is involves this movie because I believe James Ryan suffered some sort of PTSD towards the beginning and ending of the film. The opening credits of the film, James Ryan visits the grave of Captain John H. Miller. Following that, the film went to a flashback of 1944, The invasion of Normandy, France. At the end of the film, it goes back to present day, as the last memory was of Captain H. Miller dying.
Tupper, Benjamin. Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country. New York: NAL Caliber, 2010. Print.
This book explains the real life adventure in Afghanistan of ETT(Embedded Training Team) Captain Benjamin Tupper. Tupper originally posted up each chapter daily as a blog on the Internet, but eventually grouped these blogs into one whole book. Greetings from Afghanistan shows the courage of the National Guard ETT life in Afghanistan, showing their commitment to the United States. These brave soldiers are doing what it takes to survive each day, doing their jobs.
In my opinion, this book shows an extreme amount of being bias but as well as not showing any. To Captain Tupper, he respects the Afghan people. The book gives a stereotype of the Afghan people, thinking they are all part of the Taliban, giving us the idea back in the states that they are bad. We root for the American forces overseas but we also have to reconsider thinking about the people of Afghanistan. They too are human, giving them the same edge as us Americans. We typically choose the side of the Americans because we are simply are Americans.
Greetings from Afghanistan: Send more Ammo helps my research improve because this book is based off of real events happening to the soldiers overseas. The book itself even has a chapter of PTSD, understanding what events that flash back into Tupper's life.
Wakefield, P. (n.d). PTSD Doubly Disabling for Female Vets. Human Rights: Journal Of The Section Of Individual Rights & Responsibilities, 35(2), 19.
This article is addressing that females are suffering worst from PTSD, and that risk is being doubled. Female active duty personnel are adopting PTSD not only from warfare, but from rape. Rape not from the Taliban, but the soldiers fighting beside them. There are only FOUR clinics that help women suffering from PTSD. In September of 2001 there were 177,000 Iraqi and Afghanistan females serving in the Military, now there are only 27,000. PTSD is a big impact on female soldiers.
Although this article talk's about females obtaining PTSD, it gives a false step into talking about how we can help the females other then sending them to clinics for medical help. I became frustrated when I heard how the females are suffering from PTSD not from warfare, quota "Almost a third of female veterans have reported having been sexually assaulted or raped while on active duty; many more experienced serious sexual harassment." The article states that females are sent to PTSD clinics, but it does not say how those who sexually assaulted female military personnel are dealt with. I was frustrated knowing this had happened.
The article itself will be helpful for my research because it gives an understanding of how little we see PTSD in female soldiers and how easy it is to suffer from it. Women deserve and need equal access to the Veterans Affairs.
Greetings from Afghanistan, Send more Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country
This book explains the real life adventure in Afghanistan of ETT(Embedded Training Team) Captain Benjamin Tupper. Tupper originally posted up each chapter daily as a blog on the Internet, but eventually grouped these blogs into one whole book. Greetings from Afghanistan shows the courage of the National Guard ETT life in Afghanistan, showing their commitment to the United States. These brave soldiers are doing what it takes to survive each day, surviving as if it were their last.
In my opinion, this book shows an extreme amount of being bias but as well as not showing any. To Captain Tupper, he respects the Afghan people. The book gives a stereotype of the Afghan people, thinking they are all part of the Taliban, giving us the idea back in the states that all of them are bad. We root for the American forces overseas but we also have to reconsider thinking about the people of Afghanistan. They too are human, giving them the same edge as us Americans. We typically choose the side of the Americans because we are simply are Americans, if that makes sense.
Greetings from Afghanistan: Send more Ammo helps me improve my research because this book is based off of real events happening to the soldiers overseas. The book itself even has a chapter of PTSD, understanding what events that flash back into Tupper's life.
Tupper, Benjamin. Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country. New York: NAL Caliber, 2010. Print.
The book The Memory of You is about an prisoner of war captured during the Vietnam War. Six years later, he is reclaimed but during the gruesome years of torture, he has lost his memory. He doesn't recall anything before joining the Military. The Military informs Lieutenant Matthew Foster that he has a wife but he does not remember anything. But the thing is, his love back home is getting married and the military is soon to inform Abby that he is alive and coming back home.
In this book, I believe biased is being shown through Matthew's shoes. In the back of our heads, we want Matthew to find his love that he lost during the time of warfare. Even though Abby has moved on and found someone else, we believe that "love" will guide them back together and that there will be a happy ending.
In my opinion, this book shows an extreme amount of being bias but as well as not showing any. To Captain Tupper, he respects the Afghan people. The book gives a stereotype of the Afghan people, thinking they are all part of the Taliban, giving us the idea back in the states that all of them are bad. We root for the American forces overseas but we also have to reconsider thinking about the people of Afghanistan. They too are human, giving them the same edge as us Americans. We typically choose the side of the Americans because we are simply are Americans, if that makes sense.
Greetings from Afghanistan: Send more Ammo helps me improve my research because this book is based off of real events happening to the soldiers overseas. The book itself even has a chapter of PTSD, understanding what events that flash back into Tupper's life.
Tupper, Benjamin. Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country. New York: NAL Caliber, 2010. Print.
The book The Memory of You is about an prisoner of war captured during the Vietnam War. Six years later, he is reclaimed but during the gruesome years of torture, he has lost his memory. He doesn't recall anything before joining the Military. The Military informs Lieutenant Matthew Foster that he has a wife but he does not remember anything. But the thing is, his love back home is getting married and the military is soon to inform Abby that he is alive and coming back home.
In this book, I believe biased is being shown through Matthew's shoes. In the back of our heads, we want Matthew to find his love that he lost during the time of warfare. Even though Abby has moved on and found someone else, we believe that "love" will guide them back together and that there will be a happy ending.
The Memory of You gives an idea of how PTSD can be formed, and the after effects of warfare. It shows readers how bad war is and what can be gained, what can be lost, and what can never be replaced.
Kellogg, Laurie. The Memory of You. LK, 2012. Print.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Saving Private Ryan
This film is based off of the Invasion of Normandy during World War II. Captain John H. Miller(Tom Hanks) and his platoon is ordered by Army Chief of Staff to locate one of the four brothers who are still fighting the war and bring him back home. All three of Private James Ryan's brothers are KIA, along with their mother who shall be receiving all three letters of their death on the same day.
In my opinion, Saving Private Ryan doesn't show that much bias. We do in the movie root for the Americans into finding Private James Ryan, but we aren't into favoring one individual group or comparing the U.S. Army to the German Army.
My research is involves this movie because I believe James Ryan suffered some sort of PTSD towards the beginning and ending of the film. The opening credits of the film, James Ryan visits the grave of Captain John H. Miller. Following that, the film went to a flashback of 1944, The invasion of Normandy, France. At the end of the film, it goes back to present day, as the last memory was of Captain H. Miller dying.
Saving Private Ryan. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Prod. Steven Spielberg. By Robert Rodat. Perf. Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, and Tom Sizemore. DreamWorks Pictures, 1998. DVD
Friday, March 16, 2012
Podcasts about PTSD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VsVA5p7heQ
The main point of this short interview is how U.S. Army Generals are open into talking about their problems with PTSD. Their main focus is helping other soldiers speak too, about their problems dealing with PTSD.
This short clip teaches how PTSD can effect anyone, even Army Generals. Brigadier General Gary S. Patton explains how one soldier was shot in the torso. While Patton was treating the soldier, he died in his hands, causing him to re-live that in his memory forever. As for Ham, a suicide bomber blew up in a mess tent, killing twenty-two soldiers, sailors and civilians. The reason being for why they talk about their problem is because they're hoping other fellow soldiers will come out behind the shadows and talk about their PSD problems.
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=148536626&m=148536611
This blog is about a U.S. Soldier killing sixteen villagers due to PTSD. He was sent to Lewis McChord Base for further treatment, but could not help him. The Army Sergeant walked at least one mile from his base, door after door searching and killing at least sixteen villagers, nine of them children.
The radio cast about this problem doesn't really have any sort of being bias. It is simply summarising and explaining what could be the cause of why the Staff Sergeant went on this killing spree, seeing if it was intentional or not.
"Lewis McChord Base Has History of Troubles." Interview by Melissa Block. Audio blog post. NPR. 13 Mar. 2012. Web.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/restrepo/
Restrepo, the documentary about one platoon heading into the Korengal Valley. This film deals with PTSD because the documentary itself is named after a fallen medic, Private First Class Juan "Doc" Restrepo. The soldiers deal with hard labour, fallen comrades, and gunfights daily. The pain these soldiers go through is unbelievable knowing now that they will have to live with this memory their whole life.
The following film does show some sort of evidence of being bias. One scene from the documentary shows that the soldiers killed a cow because it was trapped in barbed wire, making no choice but to end its life instead of suffering pain. Because we are Americans, my opinion towards this is that we really don't care about the villagers in Afghanistan, we only care about our soldiers fighting over sea's, letting them do what they want to do thinking its right but also wrong.
The documentary, Restrepo, will help forward my research in PTSD because of the fact that they literally went through hell. Two friendlies killed in action, knowing in the back of their head that they could have saved them. This will have some sort of chain reaction into setting off PTSD.
The main point of this short interview is how U.S. Army Generals are open into talking about their problems with PTSD. Their main focus is helping other soldiers speak too, about their problems dealing with PTSD.
This short clip teaches how PTSD can effect anyone, even Army Generals. Brigadier General Gary S. Patton explains how one soldier was shot in the torso. While Patton was treating the soldier, he died in his hands, causing him to re-live that in his memory forever. As for Ham, a suicide bomber blew up in a mess tent, killing twenty-two soldiers, sailors and civilians. The reason being for why they talk about their problem is because they're hoping other fellow soldiers will come out behind the shadows and talk about their PSD problems.
"Army Generals Speak out about Their PTSD." YouTube. YouTube, 09 Mar. 2009. Web. 03 Apr. 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VsVA5p7heQ>.
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=148536626&m=148536611
This blog is about a U.S. Soldier killing sixteen villagers due to PTSD. He was sent to Lewis McChord Base for further treatment, but could not help him. The Army Sergeant walked at least one mile from his base, door after door searching and killing at least sixteen villagers, nine of them children.
The radio cast about this problem doesn't really have any sort of being bias. It is simply summarising and explaining what could be the cause of why the Staff Sergeant went on this killing spree, seeing if it was intentional or not.
"Lewis McChord Base Has History of Troubles." Interview by Melissa Block. Audio blog post. NPR. 13 Mar. 2012. Web.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/restrepo/
Restrepo, the documentary about one platoon heading into the Korengal Valley. This film deals with PTSD because the documentary itself is named after a fallen medic, Private First Class Juan "Doc" Restrepo. The soldiers deal with hard labour, fallen comrades, and gunfights daily. The pain these soldiers go through is unbelievable knowing now that they will have to live with this memory their whole life.
The following film does show some sort of evidence of being bias. One scene from the documentary shows that the soldiers killed a cow because it was trapped in barbed wire, making no choice but to end its life instead of suffering pain. Because we are Americans, my opinion towards this is that we really don't care about the villagers in Afghanistan, we only care about our soldiers fighting over sea's, letting them do what they want to do thinking its right but also wrong.
The documentary, Restrepo, will help forward my research in PTSD because of the fact that they literally went through hell. Two friendlies killed in action, knowing in the back of their head that they could have saved them. This will have some sort of chain reaction into setting off PTSD.
Restrepo. Dir. Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger. Perf. The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team. Outpost Films, 2010. DVD.
Friday, March 9, 2012
PTSD
Topic: Military PTSD
What is this topic addressing?: PTSD disorders
Introduction to your topic: My topic is about service members who have been diagnosed with PTSD. I will be searching up how our government is finding ways into helping PTSD victims and what programs they have introduced to us.
Importance of your topic: This topic is important to me because there are alot of soldiers suffering from PTSD. It gives a better understanding of the Military other than warfare. This topic is interesting because you can find different ways of helping the victims live their daily lives. It lets others understand that you can give a helping hand to soldiers, even if you're not in a battlefield.
Why you chose this topic: I chose this specific topic because I enlisted in the Military. If I was ever diagnosed with PTSD, I would want someone by my side helping me. I always wanted to research PTSD among Military service members. I want to find out what the government is doing in order to help our soldiers.
Those affected by your topic: PTSD isn't always common among soldiers, but civilians as well. PTSD is a psychological disorder that happens during traumatic events. It's mostly common towards soldiers because warfare is a key element and a trigger for PTSD.
Resource Ideas:
Documentary: Restrepo
Book: Greetings from Afghanistan, Send more ammo
Interview: Brother, in the U.S. Army
What is this topic addressing?: PTSD disorders
Introduction to your topic: My topic is about service members who have been diagnosed with PTSD. I will be searching up how our government is finding ways into helping PTSD victims and what programs they have introduced to us.
Importance of your topic: This topic is important to me because there are alot of soldiers suffering from PTSD. It gives a better understanding of the Military other than warfare. This topic is interesting because you can find different ways of helping the victims live their daily lives. It lets others understand that you can give a helping hand to soldiers, even if you're not in a battlefield.
Why you chose this topic: I chose this specific topic because I enlisted in the Military. If I was ever diagnosed with PTSD, I would want someone by my side helping me. I always wanted to research PTSD among Military service members. I want to find out what the government is doing in order to help our soldiers.
Those affected by your topic: PTSD isn't always common among soldiers, but civilians as well. PTSD is a psychological disorder that happens during traumatic events. It's mostly common towards soldiers because warfare is a key element and a trigger for PTSD.
Resource Ideas:
Documentary: Restrepo
Book: Greetings from Afghanistan, Send more ammo
Interview: Brother, in the U.S. Army
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