Voluntary military service is a selfless and great behavior in the eyes of the Americans, no matter what their motivation for joining the military is. But I think the factor that is incited by politics is the decisive factor. Just like the protagonist, at an age of enthusiasm, moved by some metaphysical and irresponsible passionate speeches, blindly go to the battlefield, don’t know what to fight for? I just knew that the country needed someone to fight, so I went without hesitation.
When I found on the battlefield that what I did was contrary to my conscience and beliefs, I was still using the excuses of self-deception to appease myself, but at this time, my soul was already suffering and doubts had arisen, so I started to ask myself, my partner, and question. Family, questioning the country, asking the people who encouraged them to enter the battlefield, but how ridiculous, how sad, how helpless.
When Tom Cruise was young, the shiny eyes burst with infinite possibilities and the same shiny but no longer clear eyes looking at his legs after he was paralyzed. When I played back and forth in my mind, I couldn’t help but have "tragedy". The four words "Life" flashed.
No one knows the truth of the war. Those on the battlefield understand that it is just a naked cruel and terrifying scene. What is behind the war? What is the meaning of war? Anti-war people saw the news that more compatriots were going to die, the numbers of people who were killed and injured in the war reports, and the soldiers who returned to the country with their mutilated bodies and medals of military merit and desolate in their old age. More importantly, the Americans lost.
The Americans went to a place in East Asia and lost a battle. Therefore, the anti-war ideological trend will have the response of all parties so quickly. What if the United States was victorious in that war? Perhaps no one considers true justice or meaning. Victory has beaten everything, but failure brings reflection.
I think the male protagonist in the play is born at an untimely time, so the title is quite ironic. If he was a soldier in World War II, he might not feel too much psychological gap, no matter whether the government will give more subsidies in his later years, but at least the people will not spur you in front of you.
Is Lonnie a man of faith? I think he does. It's just that he compromised. Although the war was said to be a wrong war, he was just born blindly and wrongly in that era and participated in a wrong war during that period.
He was not wrong. In other periods, he was a selfless and brave warrior, a hero who defended the country, progressed in thought, and was brave. But unfortunately what he encountered was indeed a wrong war initiated by the country. When everything was wrong, no matter what you did, good or bad, nothing is worth mentioning. That's what people think. It's a pity.
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