Journal Entry 3/26

Sudam Husain is putting children out in the battle? Well we are too. 18 years old. You don’t go from a child at 11:59 pm to an adult at 12 am of your 18^th birthday. I just turned 18 at the end of November and still call my Mom to ask her if I should tumble dry or drip-dry my jeans. I still act like a child. I don’t know how to do shit at 18. I’m still a kid but at the age of 18 I legally am an adult and have the ability to enlist and fucking kill someone? That’s twisted. I hate wars. I remember when my brother turned 18 and he had to put his name in for the draft. I remember my mom saying that if the draft had to be used and Tommaso’s name was picked she’d sneak him over to Canada to a friend’s house. My baby isn’t losing his life to war. I later asked her why she would say that because he would be defending our country, isn't that good?. She told me that he wouldn’t be doing it willingly and she said she wouldn’t let him go over there to literally die or die inside because he killed someone or saw the horrors of war. I know people in the army. My friend Judah is in the army. He just enlisted and is going through training. I respect that. But I would never want that. I hate war. It’s twisted you know? Innocent kids die in war torn countries and people lose their homes and live in fear. Innocent civilians die. It’s like we think that everyone in the Middle East, for example, is bad. Or everyone in North Korea is bad. That isn’t true. Of course you’ve got your bad bunch of apples but uh white people have you seen America? Yesterday I watched a video of two white women and their two YOUNG children go and vandalize mosques. The way these women (who were Trump supporters) talked about Muslim people made me so mad and sad that I literally cried in the middle of the Starbucks by Bobst. They talked about Muslims as if they were literal pieces of trash when in reality those fucking disgusting women were the trash. I hate war. I hate the stereotypes it brings about. Especially the war on terrorism. 

Research Question - Nick

Was there a second gunman in the John F. Kennedy assassination?
(sub question: was the gunman/gunmen involved in a larger conspiracy?)

Journal - 3.5.18 - image of Vietnam girl running naked

Susan Molina

I saw that image so many times in high school. I remember the first time seeing it was in my World History class freshman year. Because we were freshman and so many of the kids in my class were immature, our teacher warned us that there would be someone naked. But the image is actually very serious. It was photographed after a bombing in Vietnam. The girl was running naked because she got burned from the napalm, which is what comes from the bombs and burns your skin off. The guy who took the picture, afterwards helped pour water down her body and took her to a hospital so she could be treated, because the hospital she was sent to said that she wasn't going to survive the burns. This image is very impactful because it showed how the war was doing more harm than good. The image was very controversial, mostly because of the nudity and people tried to invalidate the  image. Like President Nixon, who said that the image was fake but the image was proven to be real, and ended up winning awards.

This image reminds me of the reading because they both have to do with the war. I had to read the book for high school and I remember the narrator of the story also describing harsh images like this one, but that he actually lived through. It's just so sad that wars exist in the first place, and that the ones that most get affected by them are the innocents one like this little girl.