Introduction and Rasmus

I will like to focus my attention on Robert Rasmus.  Robert Rasmus was a rifleman in World War II.  His life was on the line every single day.  I want to focus on a single quote.  Robert Rasmus said, “You saw those things in the movies, you saw the newsreels.  But you were of an age when your country wasn’t even in the war.  It seemed unreal.  All of a sudden, there you were right in the thick of it and people dying and you were scared out of your wits that you’d have your head blown off.”  This quote really made me think.  When I watch war movies, I always think about how brave the men must have been.  The thing is, I really don’t know how brave the men must have been.  As Rasmus said, you see battle scenes in movies, but one can’t relate until they actually go into battle.  I can’t imagine going into battle knowing that I have a 70 percent chance of dieing.  There is no way to know how you would feel unless you go into battle.  There is no way to prepare.  As Rasmus said, it happens so quickly.  You think its all fun and games and don’t understand it until your first battle.  The quote also made me think about many of the video games we play today.  We play games such as Call of Duty and get this vision that War is so much fun.  The difference between Call of Duty and real war is; in COD if you die you hit restart, in life, its over.  One can’t really imagine what war is like unless they are in the heart of battle.  Rasmus and other war veterans need to be even more respected.  Next veteran’s days, I’ll try my best to reflect on what Rasmus and other men had to go through in order to protect the United States.