Vietnam War - Vietnam Soldiers - "They Carried Ghosts"

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is nothing I can't handle." The soldiers could handle the physical horrors that were happening to them, but the mental status of many the soldiers were becoming breakable. How could you tell someone not to worry about you, when you do not even care what was going to happen to yourself. The soldiers were all prepared to die, but waiting was what was driving them crazy. They did not want to tell their 17-year-old girlfriend at home this because she would never understand. How do you tell someone that you love that you are loosing your mind and do even know who the enemy is anymore? Downplaying the whole war situation to your loved one was the only way to keep yourself sane and not make them worry too much about you. All of the men were scared, yet did not know how to show it. They could not show it to their families in letters because that could do nothing but make your mother worry that you were not going to make it. "We all scared, one can see this emotion in each individual, some ...

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want to die. "Vietnam can kill me, but it can't make be care." is the Poster slogan of the movie Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick. The men who were send to train to go to the Vietnam War shared a special relationship between each other that no one from the outside world could understand. They were all scared, yet did not know what they were in for. They knew they could die, but that was not a huge worry for them at that moment. The pain and sadness of going to war was shared with all the men in this camp. Full Metal Jacket showed how the Vietnam War made different relationships between the men fighting in it. They all shared different bonds with each other over different ...

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