The article The March of the Flag used some of the same ideas that Dalton Trumbo used in Johnny Got his Gun. Joe spends a lot of time talking about people who fight because they are fighting for liberty. In a way, the idea of spreading the flag throughout the world is the same idea. There is still an idea being spread without much thought being put into. The people that went to fight said they would fight because they wanted liberty when they didn’t really know what that was. The flag was being taken throughout the world to win over land, and then what? Both the article and book made the point that people are fighting for an idea, but they don’t really know why they are fighting for that idea or what it really means. There is a lack of knowledge that connects both of these ideas.
Monday, May 4, 2009
May 4
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Erin--
I agree with your point that both the book and the speech argue that people fighting in wars do not truly understand what they are fighting for. I especially liked your point about we take people's land and then what happens after that? I thought that was a very interesting point to make.
-Erin
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