Before I started this class, I didn’t think a lot about the Iraq War. As with most things in life, if it doesn’t affect me, it doesn’t matter a great deal. I never have really felt strongly about taking a stance to one side or another, because I never really tried to keep up on the news. I have always felt that the news is a greatly biased source of information, and is always directed to convince you to believe one thing or another rather than to actually try to present stories in an unbiased fashion. War is of course, a necessary cost of freedom, but can always be an excessive tool of greed as well. I never really decided which one this war was and never really cared.
This milblog helped me to feel more towards the war, but really did not sway my attitude towards it one way or the other. So many of these stories from the milblog are so moving and touching, and can’t help but make you feel happy or sad. They also have given me new light on the life of a soldier which I have found to be rather interesting and far from the stereotyped vision I had before. They also give a much less biased view of what actually goes on than what the news seems to. This milblog has definitely been the most worth-while assignment I have done in my educational career.
1 comment:
wow Thomas - that's a compliment indeed! Exactly, the point is to make you feel connected, not to convince you of anything.
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