Modern Day War Research Paper

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Throughout the various war’s we have discussed they all lived very different lives and all had different struggles but they also had some of the same struggles as even now modern day soldiers deal with. In the Civil War there were many different struggles soldiers had to deal with. “Civil War surgery was a gruesome business, made difficult by a general lack of understanding of disease and infection, and by a lack of proper surgical equipment to deal with the appalling wounds produced by the weapon of the day.”(Soldier Life) This was one struggle that many soldiers from Vietnam and Modern day did not have to deal with. This is because they re-used the same medical tools, didn’t have anything to help knock the person out to operate either so amputations …show more content…
That really spread the rate of disease in Civil War soldiers who were wounded. Vietnam was a very hard war for many of people to deal with because of the high amount of people with PTSD after the war was done. “Like many who carried traumatic memories of Vietnam, he left service, but the memories hung around and progressively became more insistent.”(Grey 1) PTSD of soldiers is what definitely has an effect like no other war had because from the Civil War not many people were affected like this and in the Modern Wars there are some PTSD victims but nothing like the ratio from Vietnam. During the time for Modern Wars they really have all the struggles like from all other wars. Most soldiers now a day's deal with PTSD, tragedy by losing a friend, wondering if you will live or if you can see your family again. Except these days you have many ways to die like being in an aircraft accident or being too close to a bomb. “A group of 14 American soldiers injured by an errant U.S. bomb in Afghanistan were flown to a military base in Germany Friday.”(US Soldiers Wounded in Bombing Flown to Germany 1) Now these days it is so possible this could happen to you and it can cause some serious problems with your head or