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When Fred is packing up to leave Boone City, he lets his parents keep the citations for his medals. He tells them they just came with his K-rations, and they don't mean much to him. Does this mean that his citation was like a fill-in-the-blank that lots of people in his situation (whatever exactly that may have been) got, something that they were all issued? Or that the citation was just so insignificant that it merely came with rations? Paul Fussell reveals the dishonesty behind writing medal citations, and Fred's attitude toward his is that it is also essentially meaningless. Whatever it may be, his parents take pride in it, so that's one mission accomplished. -Whitney Holcomb | When Fred is packing up to leave Boone City, he lets his parents keep the citations for his medals. He tells them they just came with his K-rations, and they don't mean much to him. Does this mean that his citation was like a fill-in-the-blank that lots of people in his situation (whatever exactly that may have been) got, something that they were all issued? Or that the citation was just so insignificant that it merely came with rations? Paul Fussell reveals the dishonesty behind writing medal citations, and Fred's attitude toward his is that it is also essentially meaningless. Whatever it may be, his parents take pride in it, so that's one mission accomplished. -Whitney Holcomb | ||
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| + | Ah, the ubiquitous ''Gone with the Wind''! Fussell talks about his arrival at the field hospital by saying, “It was like the scene of the aftermath of the Battle of Atlanta in ''Gone with the Wind''”. Whether it was an exaggeration or not, Fussell uses this comparison to show the carnage of war (and everyone would have gotten it!). The other part of the reading that struck me as ''Gone with the Wind''-esque was his discussion of the roles of nurses. Obviously, WWII nurses had the job of mending and dealing with soldiers in a very medical way, but they still seemed to serve the same kind of comforting role as Scarlet did in the Civil War. Fussell wrote about the nurse’s “freshness, affection, and good cheer” and how they shared “inside jokes”. It seems that the intangible qualities of nurses were just as important to a soldier’s psychological condition as their medical services were to a soldier’s physical well-being. – Jason Ward | ||
== 3 Movie as primary source about makers/time/setting/genre == | == 3 Movie as primary source about makers/time/setting/genre == | ||
