History: WW II

Instructions

For this discussion, you will visit the Rutgers University Oral History Archives pertaining to World War II.    You will see when you follow the link that the archives are split into different "theaters" -- European, Pacific, CBI (China-Burma-India), and American.  For the purposes of this assignment, it does not matter which location you choose.Inside each of the sections, you will find dozens of interviews with combatants and other individuals involved in the war effort.  Most of these interviews are 50 or more pages long, and I do not expect you to read an entire interview for this assignment.  Instead, I want you to choose any interview, and then skim through the interview until you find the soldier's recollections of their time while in the service (the early parts of the interview usually discuss their life before the war.)While you are skimming the interview, choose any paragraph or response consisting of ten or more lines long that catch your eye, for whatever reason.  Write a short reflection (150-200 words) on the recollection, which the rest of the class will see.  This reflection could be what you found interesting about the passage, and what else you would like to know about the references mentioned in the selection.  You could pose this as a series of questions, or you could even analyze the passage further.  You could bring in the biography of the interviewee (there is usually a short capsule biography of each of the combatants.)

Answer

While going through the Rutgers University Oral History Archives, I came across this interview about a soldier who had been involved in the second World War. While it was long, emotional, and with a lot of insights, one paragraph, however, caught my eye. This interview was an account of a soldier who had been deployed at the age of 18, and during his first few weeks, he struggled to come to terms with his new reality.In the paragraph, he begins by explaining how he had just celebrated his eighteenth birthday when the area counselor approached his father and asked if his son could join the army and fight for his country and, most importantly, his future. The soldier, named Albert N. Brown, in this case, didnt know if he was more afraid of during or being called a coward and therefore enroll...
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