Let's Train Soldier: An Analysis

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The effects of war, both during and subsequently, are very diverse and against the theory of most people. In many different sources the same view is expressed, some included are the book All Quiet on the Western Front, and two different ted talks one by Sebastian Junger titled “Our Lonely Society Makes it Hard to Come Back from War”, and the other by Hector Garcia titled “We Train Soldiers for War. Let's Train Them to Come Home, Too”. As seen in these sources, the effects of war on a soldier inspire camaraderie within the army, yet cause disconnections with the outside world and the soldiers previous lives at home.
People may believe that bonds cannot be formed because of all the strife and loss in wars, but according to Erich Remarque and Sebastian Junger this is far from the truth. These two speakers argue that during the war companionships and bonds are …show more content…
However, in this instance they would be wrong, when soldiers come back from the war they go from a close companionship with their fellow soldiers, to a world where they feel alienated and alone with not very many people that truly know what they have been through. This theory is addressed in All Quiet on the Western Front when Paul Balmer returns to his home on leave and he must repeat to himself I breathe deeply and say over to myself: “a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I can find nothing of myself in all these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there is my case of butterflies, and there is the mahogany piano – but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us” (Remarque 160). This disconnect to things that were familiar to him, and to his own family is again similarly seen as Garcia states that as the soldiers come back from war “they begin to not trust family or friends”
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