A "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemmingway is the intriguing story of a man named Krebs who enlists in the Marine Corps while that he attended a Methodist college in Kansas. After serving two years on the Rhine, he returned with the second division in 1919 but Krebs was no longer in the same state of mind as before his departure. The reason Krebs was so upset when he returned home was not because no one wanted to listen to his war stories, but because he and the other soldiers had no real benefits, such as medical care, education, extra pay or whatever. help him get back to the real world. This stated reason is why Krebs and the soldiers came home from the war with nothing to show for it other than their time in service and empty hearts. There are benefits that should not have been provided and the most important one was the medical benefits. I say this because soldiers returned from war with missing limbs and a life full of misery due to the circumstances imposed on them during combat. Soldiers with missing limbs were cared for during the war by nurses, while the government “intended to repay its debt to soldiers disabled during the war by providing them with free vocational rehabilitation” (Gelber). Trout said: "Of the twenty-nine American combat divisions which fought on the Western Front (each containing, at full strength, approximately 27,000 men), the Second suffered the greatest number of casualties with approximately 18,000 wounded and 5,000 killed. They were also the ones who received the largest number of replacements, more than 35,000 men. With these high numbers and all the people that come with them, how is the government going to solve all their problems? While the government...... middle of paper ...... - A "hard order": the re-education of disabled World War I veterans in New York - Journal of Social History 39:1." Project Muse. Oxford University Press, Fall 2005. Web May 5, 2014. Hemmingway, Ernest “The Soldier's Home.” Ed. Michael Meyer. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. . Jones, Edgar and Wessely, Simon. National Center for Biotechnology Information. US National Library of Medicine, January 1, 2005. Web. May 10, 2014. Mayo Clinic. “Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).” Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic, April 15, 2014 Web. Trout, Steven. "Where do we go from here?" »: “Soldier's Home” by Ernest Hemingway and American veterans of the First World War. » The Hemingway Review 20.1, Fall 2000. Web. . May 4 2014.