its about a group of generals and congressmen who gather together a group of soldiers who are suspected to be gay and sends them on a mission that will more than likely result in their death
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You will want to check out Writers Market. Check your public library.
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I think that Golding used a soldier to bring Irony into the story again. The boys are asleep when the adults are fighting overhead. Also, he may have done that to bring "real life" back into the story, so that the reader didnt forget that there was still a war going on. The boys (or at least Ralph) think that once they are rescued, they'll be safe, but really they'll still be in danger of bombs and other warfare from their parents fueds. I guess as we grow older, our fueds get more and more dangerous.
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In the summer of 1942, young men in Army training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, are given an opportunity to be part of a unique unit of paratroopers. This unit offers $50 dollars a month extra for hazardous duty pay, which draws a lot of the volunteers. These men begin a very rigorous training regimen under Captain Sobel, whom most of the men come to hate. Their training includes basic infantry skills - use and maintenance of various weapons, map reading, communications. They also practice jumping with parachutes, beginning with towers of varying heights, then to the actual jump from an airplane. The hardest part of their training is a run they must make, up to the top of Mount Currahee, which is an Indian name that means We Stand Alone Together. \n    After several long months of this training, the men of Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, are shipped to Uppottery, England, where they continue their training. They are being prepared for the greatest military maneuver ever undertaken; the D-Day invasion of Normandy. The 506 is to parachute behind the German lines and work their way back towards the beach, to meet the Allies there, and hopefully cut off German supply lines to the front in the process. On June 6, 1944, the invasion comes, after having been postponed for bad weather. The drops do not go well, due to anti-aircraft fire and low visibilty, but as the men hit the ground, they begin to regroup, and eventually, the beaches are secured, and the company is under the leadership of Lt. Dick Winters. Now it is time to beat the Germans back to Berlin. \n    Easy Company does not get much rest after D-Day. They are sent into Holland, as part of Operation Market-Garden. In an effort to get to Berlin, they are then sent to Bastogne, and are tasked to hold the front line in the dead of winter, with no food, no winter clothing, and little ammo. This becomes known as the Battle of the Bulge. After many casualties, they are finally relived, and then continue the push towards Germany. They finally fight their way in to Germany, where they come upon a concentration camp, one of many that are found as the Allies push into what was German territory. The company gets tasked to take Hitler's Eagle's Nest and the town of Berchtesgaden, the last stronghold of the SS, and as the German Army surrenders, many of the men begin preparing to ship out to the war in the Pacific. Finally, Japan, too, surrenders, and the war is over. \n    Easy Company had one of the highest casualty rates of all the Allied units. There were many battlefield commissions, including making Dick Winters a Major, and battallion leader. Their unit was disbanded after the war, in honor of their accomplishments. For the ones that made it back, we get a brief glimpse of thier lives back at home, how they took their experiences and lived their lives after being a part of one of the greatest forces in all of military history. This is an intimate look at how these men came together and made it through the worst the Germans had, how they became a Band of Brothers.
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During the Viet Nam War, many guys did just that! And more! They would eat Poppy Seeds to test positive for drugs, wear ladies panties to the physical examination so they would be tossed out for being gay, some would gain weight in excess of the approved amount for induction, and any multitude of other ways to try and beat the system. Some even went as far as to flee to Canada to escape the draft. Some worked others didn't.
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First: there are *already* gays in the military. Just because they are not open about it doesn't mean that they aren't there.\n\nSecond: as a result of the situation mentioned in the previous paragraph, I can guarantee you that relationship issues are already occurring. These relationships should be handled in the same way as any other-- under the existing rules and regs that govern all kinds of interpersonal relationships, such as fraternization, sexual harrassment, substance abuse, etc.
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A daisychain of gayers.
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I have heard about and it is absolutley appalling!  On a brighter note, there is a  national group of motorcycle- riding activists and veterans  called "Patriot  Guard Riders"out there that has been going to many of these same funerals, they however are doing a wonderful thing. They are either running interference between the protesters and the family, shielding the families from these ridiculos intruders, or simply showing up to show support for the fallen heros and their families.
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It is as close to being true as they will let it be. The military keeps some stuff secret but the show is really hitting it on the head. I love watching it and seeing what my husband and his friends in the military do.
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They want to take out ROTC because of the military connection, but are ready to teach alternative life styles, such as homosexuality. go figure!! If it wasn't for the military and their sacrifice for over 235 years, they wouldn't have those freedoms of changing and voicing their opinions. In some countries, they would be taken out and shot for thinking or saying what they do.\n\nCalifornia needs more conservatives and less liberals. I say, put a fence up along their border and seal them off from the rest of the nation.
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Those private guys are former military anyway.  So when the military guys get out, they can go do that if they want. But they'll probably never want to see that desert again.
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I don't care the arguements against gay people serving in the military.  Military intergrated black people into the military.  And women.  Services adapted.  Before Philipinos could only be cooks, not anymore.\n\n    It is time to allow people in and people regardless of orientation need to not be "fooling around" while on duty on on military ships.\n\nStraight people get in trouble when the "fool around" so gays would have to be held to the same high standards.\n\nI proudly served with one man who was in the closet who eventually was removed for drugs.  But his orientation didn't stop him from doing a good job at all.\n\nTo the point that they might get "thrown overboard" which was said was the reason they weren't allowed in,  thats murder and guilty should be punished.\n\nWhen you see arabic translators get kicked out, you realize, this policy is bull sh)t.
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I think they make a decision to be gay.
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Wasnt it Clinton, who once he got in office, thought of the homosexuals as a higher priorty then too......  Pelosi wont do anything to better the war, she will end up getting more killed, maybe even on American soil!
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because it portrays gays being cowboys.
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the Homos are the gay ones
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Well, just like homosexuals, they cannot self-perpetuate. They must seek out new recruits to fill their ranks. If they didn't, they would die out.
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marines because they have there act together unlike the army