We went to go visit Senator Dodd's office and while there we talked to his representative, Lieutenant Martin. We talked about what Dodd's thinks about the military and the draft. For more information on Senator Dodd, you may go to the link http://dodd.senate.gov/~dodd/index.php?q=node/2954.

Rifleman Creed

This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than the enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will. My rifle and I know that what counts in war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, or the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit.

My rifle is human, even as I am human, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my rifle clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other.

Before God I swear this creed. My rifle and I are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.

So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy.

Chris Peble on War

We went to the CATO Institute and met with a man named Chris Preble. To learn more about his opinion on war you can move your cursor to

http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/01/30/conditions-for-increasing-active-duty-force/

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armywrong.net

This website shows and tell the people the wrong that the army is leaving in the war. Many people think that the army is doing something good but it is also harming people. This website shows how the army hurts those who are innocent and kill the family that only want to defend their children etc.

armywrong.net

A perspective of World War II

Hi, My name is Diamond Harris and in my capstone i have read a book called I Had Seen Castles, by Cynthia Rylant. This books is about a boy named john who wants to join in the war. John has a girlfriend named Ginny that he meets and Ginny doesn't want john to join the war because she is a conscientious objector and she says he will miss everything. John insist on wanting to join the war because he believes on fighting for his country. " if you die you'll miss everything. you won't be back you will miss everything." This means that if john goes to the war he might die and he'll never come back. Ginny also believes if john attend the war than the will be no chance of him being there for her. In conclusion, john really cares about Ginny but he wants to fight for his country.

(check out this author at this site below)
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/rylant.htm

Mr.Flahavan From Selective Service

On June 15, 2007, we guest a guest speaker and his name was Mr.Flahavan, that is a representative from the Selective Service. He came to talk with us about the Selective Service. Mr.Flahavan told us that the Selective Service is mandatory military service that supplies manpower to the Armed Forces in an emergency and maintain an alternative service for men that are conscientious objectors. It is the law for all men that are 18 through 25 years of age to register with Selective Service before their 26th birthday, or they will be prosecuted. He also said that all women are excluded from registration and combat. You can register for Selective Service on-line, at the post office, check box, or at your high school. Once a man gets qualified for the draft, he could make a claim for classification as a CO, which is a conscientious objector that is opposed to participate in war because of moral or religious beliefs. There are two different types of service that are available for a CO, and it's determined by their specific beliefs. The first type is the alternative service and that is the men that are opposed to serve in any form of the military, and the second type is the men whose beliefs allow them to serve in the military but won't let them participate in training or any other duties that involve weapons. To get more information on the Selective Service, you can go to www.sss.gov
-Janae Smith

Quotes from "The Things They Carried" by Tim O, Brien

The book "The Things They Carried" was written by author and Vietnam War veteran Tim O' Brien in 1990.This book is fiction but is based on many of his real experiences as a soldier. Below are quotes that I believe to be memorable and relevant to our CAP. This was an excellent book and I am glad I read it. I highly recommend it.
-Jessica Miles


Page 20,Chapter: "The Things They Carried"

"When someone died, it wasn't quite dying, because in a curious way it seemed scripted, and because they had their lines mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy, and because they called it by other names, as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself."


Page 44,Chapter: "On The Rainy River"

"I was afraid of walking away from my own life, my friends and my family, my whole history, everything that mattered to me. I feared losing the respect of my parents.I feared the law. I feared ridicule and censure."

Page 80,Chapter: "How To Tell A True War Story"

"How do you generalize? War is hell,but thats not the half of it,because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling;war is drudgery. War makes you a man;war makes you dead."

Page 81,Chapter: "How To Tell A True War Story"

"To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true."


Page 82,Chapter: "How To Tell A True War Story"

"For the common soldier, at least, war has a feel-the spiritual texture- of a great ghostly fog,thick and permanent. There is no clarity. everything swirls. The old rules are no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blend into chaos,love into hate,ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are,or why your there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity. "


Page 179,Chapter: "Good Form"

"I did not kill him. But I was present you see, and my presence was guilt enough."


Page 179, Chapter: "Good Form"

"I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth."

Page 225, Chapter: "The Lives of the Dead"

"But in a story, which is kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world."