War Is Gruesome, Violent, And Pure Death - 1609 Words

Throughout the history of the world, war has been prevalent. Sometimes necessary, sometimes not, war ruins countries, governments, communities, and families. War used to make heroes, legends of the battlefield; romanticized through time. Stories of knights and great battles of the past have a tendency to be portrayed as honorable, courageous duals. Ever since the Civil War in the mid-1800s, the view on war and the men and women who fought in them have been receiving a more realistic point of view. There are still heroes and great battles but they are far less romanticized. The story has begun to change for the men and women involved in wars. The nature of war is gruesome, violent, and pure death. The things people see in a war zone takes†¦show more content†¦Men make up a very large portion of military personnel, and even more so of combat positions. Colonel Angela Pereira of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, completed extensive research on P TSD between combat and non-combat occupational specialties, as well as between men and women: Men scored higher than women on all five of the instruments used to measure the predictor variables: level of combat-related exposure to stress; level of PTSD symptomatology; level of general, cumulative life stressors; and level of current symptomatic distress. There were significant differences in scores between men and women on all but one of the scales (Table I). There were no statistically significant differences in the scores of the SLES-S (cumulative lifetime stressors). Men of the military are generally in more combat situations than women and are more likely get PTSD from being attacked. These attacks can lead to heavy fire-fights and forcing military personnel to eliminate the threat. Killing another human being is generally considered un-natural, immoral, and illegal. Yet when fighting in a war, it can be justified and moral but this doesn’t make killing anymore natural. Killing someone is difficult to deal with psychologically for a person who doesn’t want to kill. During these same attacks, a fellow service member, sometimes even considered a friend, might be killed. Losing a friend can