War is HellThroughout history, humans have been unable to maintain peace and have always resorted to the inevitable state of war. War has changed the lives of every person who has ever lived, and will continue to do so as man fights for survival of the fittest. Millions of innocent people were literally victims of the idea of ​​war, and billions had their lives changed forever. Every day people watch movies, read books, and hear reports about war in the media, but how can one truly understand what war is without being forced to take the lives of other humans, while learning at the same time to cope with living conditions? , being in completely unfamiliar places and staring death in the face every day. War has many traumatic aspects that can change a man into a completely different person. In the world we live in, the worst act a man can do is to take the life of another human being. As horrible and wrong as it may seem, taking someone's life has become a practice with which people in wars throughout the centuries have become extremely familiar. Imagine being a typical twenty-year-old college student, perhaps about to get married and start a family, and three months later being forced to kill just so you can stay alive and return home. Going from complete freedom to take orders and now having the freedom to commit what we consider to be one of the most serious crimes. While this is an astonishing revolution for some, there are also those who can see someone die and view them as just another number, without even being phased. A case of this situation would be: "You messed up, sorry, look at that, you did it, you exposed it like fucking Shredded Wheat" (O'Brien 2). However, as this statement was being recited, Tim, emotionless, stared at the young man whose life he himself had just taken. Looking at the young man's body, he began to tell himself the story of the young man's life. "He was perhaps born in 1946 in the village of My Khe... He was not a communist. He was a citizen and a soldier." He continues by stating: "He was not a fighter, his health was poor, his body small and fragile..