Son, Daughter, Brother, Sister, Husband, Wife, Father, Mother
April 15, 2015 In my American History class we began talking about World War II and in my English class we started reading "The Things They Carried" By Tim O'Brien which is centered around Vietnam. The idea of war has always been a very prominent idea in my life. I was born on an American base in Kaiserslautern, Germany because my dad was in Army. I grew up with the idea in my head that any day we could get notified that my dad was dead. I had friends mom's, dad's, brother's, or sister's that had died and the possibility was always there. I don't have a personal relationship with my dad, the deployments and his work always got in the way so while he missed birthdays, school accomplishments and all the "firsts" you could think of, I was too busy trying to distract myself of his absence to notice his absence. When I think of war, I think of young men and women dying. I think of the plenty of goodbye-ceremonies I went through. I thi...