Wednesday, October 19, 2005
The Soldier's Fate
Is there a redemptive ideal to be found in war and the institution of the military? Does the soldier in battle concern himself with such thoughts? Do his dreams not consist of nightmares of the groaning dead, clawing and fighting their way out of mortality into the lucidity of phantoms struggling to live on in the survivors, desperate not to be forgotten? Does he fear his own death, does he long for it, and will it release him from the most torturous queue conceived by human design? Will there be an image he strives to fit, will he concern himself with some ideological course in order to inspire him and push him towards great feats of soldiery?
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overdramatic maybe?
though sympathetic and honest
Yes, I was most certainly in an over-dramatic mood when I wrote this. It is actually taken from a journal entry of mine some time ago. I believe it was inspired by a military history course I was taking as well as some news item I had just seen. I thought it would make a good post on my board after the self-defining images article and since a friend of mine had just returned from serving a tour in Iraq. Thank you though for the compliments.
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