Blog #4

World War Two tends to be a war that is forgotten, but it shouldn't be; it is an event that changed the face of the United States and of the world because of all of the things that happened during. For many Americans, like Robert Rasmus, World War 2 was an event that changed everything about their lives, and was a huge marking point  of time in their lives. Like Robert said, his time frame was B.W and A.W (before war and after war), and so it was for a lot of Americans. The horror of having your son go off to be a soldier must be one of the scariest things in the world. Just knowing that he has a very good chance of getting killed, but to do it honorably, and also knowing that there is nothing you can do to stop it from happening. You can write him, but chances are, he won't see it for days. Robert's mother said, "Bob, you've got to tell your captain you're too tall to be a rifleman" (178). She would make any excuses because she just couldn't believe that it was actually happening; her little boy was not so little anymore, and he was leaving. And he might not come back, and that struck her, so she cried. I think it is insane the way Robert remembers every little detail of his time serving in the army, even though it was years ago, because I think back to earlier this year and I don't even remember everything, but I guess that just goes to show how people tend to remember events in their lives that have a huge impact on them, and especially something as horrifying and powerful as World War 2 would be imprinted in your head forever. He started talking about this dream he had where all these ambulances came through and these surgeons were getting their equipment on, but when he asked around, nobody knew what he was talking about; so he knew it was a dream. He said that dream gave him a real bad feeling that awful things were coming their way. But they were doing well, and he said that he learned a lot from his roll in WWII, and he comes out of it feeling grateful that he was a participant. I would call it a job well done.