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The message is that war should be avoided at all cost.
What will you documentary do to present your message
I plan first telling, people where is war then show how war changes peoples life the people how lost all in war like the family of the Israel soldier who died kidnapped by hizbollah after that I plan on honoring some war vets.
In USA today I found an interesting article by Rick Hampton about the effect of the Iraq war in USA. He mentions that there are many psychological effects of war. The way people think, feel, and act is changed. Some people say that the war in Iraq has made them pray and cry. The war has changed the way some people view their spirituality. Some people think it is more important now to have a relationship with life because of the death they hear about everyday in Iraq. Veterans have mental disorders because of what they have seen and experienced in war. War has also affected veterans by making them feel guilty for what they have done. The patriotism in the United States has been affected because people feel that what they have done is good and others feel harshly about what their country has done in Iraq. Even Americans who are not fighting in the war are also affected. "Rose Gill, 56, of Round Rock, Texas, lost her was too distraught to go back to work." It is very hard to lose a son, father, friend, and it is hard to get back to normal life when you have lost a loved one. "Jim Murphy, 60, counsels returning veterans who have mental problems because of what they saw." The article says that some Americans don't think they have been affected at all. "A majority of poll respondents say they have not sent a letter, e-mail, or care package to troops in Iraq." Even though the destructive bombing is not happening in the United States, it can still affect the people there. In USA people can see the images of violence on television and newspapers. They hear everyday about "...roadside bombings, military funerals, shattered mosques, wounded children..." Hearing about these things makes people feel sad and depressed. People can feel helpless because their country is doing such harm and they have never felt the same harm as Iraq is feeling. Other people think that USA is helping Iraq because Saddam Hussein was killing the Kurds. Marine son Steven to an improvised bomb last July in Iraq.
In Newsweek, I found an article by Peg Tire called battling the Effects of War. The article is very interesting because it talks about the psychological disorders of people who come home from the Iraq War. Some of the most common psychological effects are post traumatic stress disorder that is a mental condition caused by extreme stress. It also makes soldiers hypervigiliance, insomnia, recurring nightmares, anxiety, mood disorders, depression, and intrusive thoughts. People who suffer from these conditions fall into drug and alcohol abuse, unemployment, homelessness and suicide very easily. The United States is trying to help these people by counseling, social workers, mental hospitals, outreach programs, mental health clinics, and psychiatric hospitals. Sometimes these programs don't work for example, "Jeffery Lucy hanged himself in the basement of his family home" one year after returning from Iraq. Sometimes soldiers become schizophrenic and die because of it.
On BBC News I found a very interesting article by Richard Allen Greene called Veterans try talking about trauma. After the article there was a place where people could write in comments telling about the trauma their families had experienced because of war. The best part of the article is the comments that people wrote because you could hear the different ways that war affected people from all over the world. For example, Hitler from Baghdad, Iraq wrote that for three days he and his family were stuck in his house while the Republican Guards bombed their neighborhood. He found his neighbor's body parts on the roof of his house because a bomb blew his body parts away. The daughters of Hitler have nightmares and they cry anytime they hear loud noise because it reminds them of the sounds of the loud bombs that happened outside their house. This experience can cause mental disease. People from many different places in the world responded to the article. There were people writing from Iraq, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Australia, and Egypt. Cheng from Canada wrote about a patient that killed a young 14 year old child in Vietnam and now he has nightmares about watching the kid die and also he can never eat meat because he shot the boy in the head. He feels like he is a murderer even though he only was a soldier doing what the government told him to do. The poor guy has suffered a lot and we have to admire him in a way for all his suffering. Marian from Iraq had lived in war since he was six years old because of Iran, Kuwait and the UN sanctions. Living in constant war caused him not to fear death because he saw it everyday. People dying were part of his life, he thought that it was natural and so he doesn't have fear of death. He is also always worried about gas, water and food because they had to live sometimes without any because of the wars. He is very controlling and always trying to plan his life to make sure he has gas, water and food. Another comment from John in England said that he fought in the Gulf War with his twin brother and the war made his brother lose his marriage. He thinks that all ex-service people are socially strange because it is a coping mechanism to deal with what they have done. People who go to war feel guilty because they have killed people. The president tells them to kill people so they have no control they have to do what the president says. They have to live with it and think that when war is over I won't kill anyone again and I am not a bad person. They can do community service to feel better. I am going to research about effects of war on children and especially child soldiers. I am interested in researching child soldiers because I am in MUN and it is the topic in my committee. I have already learned a few things about child soldiers like girls are used as sex slaves, some boys are told to rape girls, some child soldiers have never had a normal life or family, there are about 300,000 child soldiers in the world, and Uganda, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Zimbabwe, East Timor, Somalia all have child soldiers.
I read an article from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs about the child soldiers in Afghanistan. Even though the Tailbone was kicked out of Afghanistan by the USA, there are still military groups that are fighting to get power of Afghanistan. Those military groups are recruiting children to fight their battles. Many kids in Afghanistan have to join the armies to get money for their families. They get paid for fighting wars. The article says "The reasons are obvious: children are cheaper to employ, slow to question authority and often quick to prove themselves in Afghanistan's gun-dominated macho society." That is why there are so many child soldiers in Afghanistan, there are 8,000 child soldiers there when the United Nations last did a check. The reason there are child soldiers in Afghanistan is because the USA blow upAfghanistan after the September 11th bombings. USA dropped bombs on all of Afghanistan and ruined the whole country. There were no more houses, or jobs, or anything. Then the kids had nothing to do besides become a child soldier. Many of their friends and family died so it makes them very angry and want to have revenge on the USA. Some of them want to have support since their family is dead and they can get support from the armies if they become fighters. I am interested in what the USA army is doing wrong.
I found an interesting article by Peter W. Singer called Facing Saddam's Child Soldiers. It was written in 2003 but I think it is a good article because it talks about child soldiers being a regular part of war in today's world. It also talks about what Saddam Hussein did to make it possible for child soldiers to be part of his battles. At the time the article was written more than half of Iraq's population was below the age of 18. Saddam Hussein trained children how to fight in wars. He taught them how to fight by having 3 week long training camps in the summer for boys. The boys who went to this camp some were only 10 years old. They had to do drills to learn how to use weapons and how to be in warfare. Saddam Hussein made the boys train so that they could politically defend him when a war would occur. So Saddam Hussein knew that a war was coming much before USA even thought of invading. Saddam had these camps for boys starting in the 1990s. I think that these boys that Saddam trained are the ones fighting against the USA right now because the only thing these boys know how to do is fight. They have been told that Westerners are bad, they don't care about you, they will kill you, they hate your religion, they won't have mercy, kill them before they kill you. The article also says that USA military usually wouldn't kill kids, but that in a war in Iraq they might be forced to because they are going to be fighting against the kids. I think that the USA military are told to kill the enemy even if the enemy is kids. If they don't kill the kids in Iraq, they kids will kill them. That is why some of the vets that come back from Iraq are so traumatized and feel guilty. They think that their wives and girlfriends might think they are monsters because they killed kids in Iraq. The article also says that US troops have to remember that not all kids are soldiers. There is the chance that US soldiers will just start killing any kids they see because they will think they are going to kill them. Next I am going to research children in Afghanistan
Andrew Posts February 23, 2007
I found a great article on Newsweek.com. It talks about PTSD a certain disease that soldiers get when returning home from war...to see this article go to www.msnbc.msn.com/id.9024783/site/newsweek/
Mariano posts
Hey can you guys tell me what types of pictures you might need so that i could start finding them and how long would you guys like the poems to be. if you need my email i think your teachers have it or you can just ask me on the wiki cuase i check it everyday.
Here is a haiku that i wrote which you might be able to use on the presentation.
War can burn the soul
it tears its victims apart
and we still wage war
hey here is my final peom that we can use to some up the whole thing pretty much:
The Madness of War
War kills
Burns
And eats away like bacteria decomposing prey
The psychological effects are mind numbing
Victims become paranoid like little children that fear the dark
Families are torn apart over stretched rubber band
The tension too great
And if one side is let go
The other side will shatter like a mirror
War is not inevitable
We do not have to fight like pawns under a king’s command
For there is no obligation to send men to war
There is no right in letting people be forgotten like broken toys hidden under beds
Lives do not have to be lost
Families don’t have to be torn apart
If lawsuits can be settled in a room without the use of weapons
Why can’t disagreements between nations be solved in the same way?
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