How the Violence of War Can Affect a Soldier

First Multi-Media Review

A short documentary, “The Iraq War: A Soldier's Perspective”, shows what the violence in war can do to a person was filmed to get the view of the Iraqi war from two soldiers whom had experienced a lot of violence in their time at war. One of the veterans that they interviewed was a PFC; he was in charge of deciphering the interrogations they would have on the captives. His first story is talking about when he had a soldier next to him get blown to pieces because of him. He said that “I was smoking a cigar in a cloud of mushroom smoke, and I had no idea”. Because of what he did, he lost a friend.
Losing a friend can really tear someone up inside. Especially when it is your bad choice that got him killed. Russell will never be able to forget something like that. Russell also killed some people. He said when he first killed people that he “didn’t think it was that bad, even laughed a little bit”. He was a part of something that war does to everyone. War changes the way people are. No one person comes back the same after being in the war. Russell said he was diagnosed with a Physiological disorder after he left Iraq, and that he cannot even be around things like fireworks without it affecting him.

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