My expectations at the beginning when I started to read the story “bodies”, I thought this is going to be someone who had no problem picking up dead body parts, bodies extremely decomposing because of the heat. I was a read the story twice, it was the complete opposite, this Marine cared and respected the dead by being ever to careful which made no difference because the soldiers were already dead and had tremendous empathy for them, he tried to look for personal items tha the could possibly recover so he can have send back home to the dead soldiers family. This was a complete unexpected turn. I really did assume that the Marine was indifferent and just did his job without putting any thought to it. The place the story takes place is …show more content…
The Marine obviously struggles with misunderstandings and misconceptions of what he really did in Iraq. The Marine deals with his personal demons from this tour in Iraq. When he gets home he tries to live a normal live. “Bodies” is told by Marine who is a member of the Mortuary Affair unit at a Navy unit at a Navy base in Iraq. The “affairs part of the unit’s title translates to the collecting of dead bodies. In his unit he only collects the corpse of U.S. military and the Iraqis are responsible for their own collecting of bodies.
In some strange way he looks up to Corporal G. He describes how well he takes care of himself physically, how strong he is and how all the girls usually fall for him and he always tries to
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He also describes how he was respectful to the corpse they clean up. When they picked up a corpse the Marine recalls how
Corporal G. would say to himself “careful, careful, and careful”. Showing the empathy he really did have for the dead. You could say Corporal G. was his mentor, he would teach how to handle the bodies and how to look for personal or sentimental items they can possible collect.
It seems that at times he had to convince himself dyeing was not just a bad thing. He describes here: “There were times, after dealing with the remains, when I’d grab a piece of my flesh and pull it back so I could see it stretch, and I’d think, this is me, this all I am. (pg 67)
Almost like he needed to make sure that he can hold his sanity by just convincing himself it just flesh nothing else, keep working and don’t think about it.
Rachael was a girlfriend he had when he left for boot camp she broke up with him and he really felt like he had no one after the break up. He felt like he had no one. The other units would pretty much isolate him because he handled the dead and for most that was difficult to accept.
He has feelings of rage, guilt, and issues fitting back at home. At times In my opinion he tries
After each confrontation where casualties occurred Chamberlain was sure to visit with each individual soldier or group of soldiers and be certain they didnt need the attention of a doctor. He also took time to get to know his men and build relationships with them. Through this act Chamberlain gained more respect, even, than Lee because his soldiers not only knew who they were fighting for, but also knew that if they died fighting for him they would die in honor under the command of a caring and passionate man. To be a good soldier you must love the army. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. This is a very hard thing to do. ~Robert E. Lee (The Killer Angels Pg. 191)
Marine, you are going to risk your life and go in and get that Marine and
his psyche had to deal with. He was very up-set (as any other person would be)
Take Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, for example. Although he had no desire to be in Vietnam, not to mention be leading troops there, it is evident that he is selfless in the pursuit of the war, and genuinely concerned about the welfare of his men. Unfortunately, he is blinded by guilt to these qualities.
well as his emotions) and made him almost obsessive compulsive about wasting food or money. He has a
In this book, Dr. Bass takes us behing the scenes of the Body Farm. An engaging storyteller, he reveals his hardest and best cases. While this book tells about Bass’s life, it is centered around the Body Farm itself because it tells of how it was started. This book is very informative and it tells you that even though it is a dead body, it can still tell many tales and it can mean a lot to history, This book shows just how the dead can come to
The story is riddled with death; all of the dead he’s has seen: Linda, Ted Lavender, Kiowa, Curt Lemon, the man he killed, and all the others without names. Through his memories of them he relives his time in Vietnam. By telling their stories he “keeps dreaming dreaming them alive.” to try and restore his
Wallace Terry has collected a wide range of stories told by twenty black Vietnam veterans. The stories are varied based on each experience; from the horrific to the heart breaking and to the glorified image of Vietnam depicted by Hollywood. Wallace Terry does not insinuate his opinion into any of the stories so that the audience can feel as if they are having a conversation with the Vietnam Veteran himself. Terry introduces the purpose of the book by stating, “ Among the 20 men who portray their war and postwar experiences in this book. I sought a representative cross section of the black combat force.”(p. XV) Although the stories in this book were not told in any specific order, many themes became prominent throughout the novel such as religion, social, and health.
8. Mark, T., & Carter, D.O. (2010). Cadaver Decompossition and Soil: Processes. Soil Analysis in Forensic Taphonomy: Chemical and Biological Effects of Buried Human Remains (p. 35-36). CRC Press. Retrieved from http://books.google.es/books?id=aksRkfr1d6kC
(not compiled yet, paper is due Friday. I want to get the body taken care of, please)
During the Vietnam War, the first platoon (approximately forty men) was lead by a young officer named William Calley. Young Calley was drafted into the US Army after high school, but it did not take long for him to adjust to being in the army, with a quick transition to the lifestyle of the military, he wanted to make it his career. In high school, Calley was a kind, likable and “regular” high school student, he seemed to be a normal teenager, having interest in things that other boys his age typically had. He was never observed acting in a cruel or brutal way. In Vietnam, Calley was under direct order of company commander, Captain Ernest Medina, whom he saw as a role model, he looked up to Medina. (Detzer 127).
The author, Tim O'Brien, is writing about an experience of a tour in the Vietnam conflict. This short story deals with inner conflicts of some individual soldiers and how they chose to deal with the realities of the Vietnam conflict, each in their own individual way as men, as soldiers.
Imagine yourself as a mortician, certified as an embalmer, retort operator, funeral director, and a funeral cosmetologist. You get a call late at night, there’s been a terrible accident and someone has died. You arrive at the hospital and are directed to a small room where the body of the deceased is being held. There’s blood all over the sheets as the doctor and coronary assistant zip up the body bag and inform you the body was badly mangled in a car accident, which is going to make reconstructing the deceased very difficult. Your assistant puts the body on the stretcher and loads it into the hearse while you talk to the wife of the deceased man. She tells you they plan to have a funeral so you give her your card and a reassuring word before leaving the hospital and driving back to the funeral home. Now your job begins, not only will you have to reconstruct this man’s disfigured body, but you must meet with the family, discuss funeral arrangements, and deal with the family’s emotional trauma that comes with losing a loved one. Although working in the funeral business can be emotionally draining, it’s a satisfying feeling to see mourning families able to say goodbye to their loved ones. Despite the fact that working so closely with the deceased can be chilling, Mortuary science can be a thrilling field to work in.
When a suspicious body appears in the morgue, the forensics team goes to work. The body, if still covered in tissue goes to the forensic pathologist who will study the tissue extensively. If a conclusion is unable to be reached through this process, the pathologist will remove the tissue from the bone and send the skeleton to the forensic anthropologist. In other cases, the victim is found with no to little tissue on the bone, making it nearly impossible for a layman to discover any identifying characteristics about the person. The forensic anthropologist’s first job is to determine the sex, age and race of the victim (Sauer, 1998).
The word “Autopsy” means ‘to see with one’s own eyes,’ (2) and is a procedure that has been performed since the time of (LOOK UP IN NOTES). Not every death that occurs is subjected to an autopsy – this would be time consuming and expensive. Yet the situations that require such a procedure are different for every state. In fact, there is no federal standard when it comes to autopsy requirements or procedures – a surprising fact, considering the sheer number of years the human race has been practicing the procedure.