Text Connection#3

The video “Soldiers Speak Out,” the soldiers who came back from Afghanistan were devastated and they got to see the ugly truth about war. The thematic theme between the video and the story is that both the soldiers in the video and the sniper in the story hated war. In the video the soldiers talked about there experiences at Afghan in a negative way, they couldn’t really explain how bad it was to be in warfare at Afghanistan. They have hatred for war, they think it’s an insult to humanity and they like seeing the people to protest against war. For example in the video from 0:16- 0:20, a person says “I was one of the troops. I served in Iraq. I see people protesting, I like this war to end.” In the story, the sniper must want what the people in the video wanted, the war to come to an end. The sniper himself hates war; there is only a limit to people seeing dead, unless that person enjoys watching lives being executed, if you see people dying all the time then that person must have great sorrow and must be furious about everything that are going around them, which is what situation the sniper is in. For example of how the sniper reacted, “…..He revolted from the sight of the shattered mass of his dead enemy….Cursing the war, cursing himself, cursing everybody.