Question

World War II brought out the savageness of American soldiers. Write an essay explaining how and why these soldiers became savages. Did this savageness carry over to American citizens as well?

Answer 1

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He refers to them as savages because he is trying to explain that white men to red man are savages and red man to white men are savages. They are savages to each other because do not understand their ways or traditions. He thinks of white men as savages as they destroy the land because it is their enemy, their animals, etc. and the red man cares for the land as it is theirs so they are savages to each other as they do not understand each other's thinking.

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Answer 2

Answer:His first sergeant rousted him from his pup tent around 2 a.m. when word came the Japanese were attacking and had maybe even gotten behind the American front line, on a desolate, unforgiving slab of an occupied island in the North Pacific.

"He was shouting, 'Get up! Get out!'" Dover said.

Dover and most of the American soldiers rushed to an embankment on what became known as Engineer Hill, the last gasp of the Japanese during the Battle of Attu, fought 75 years ago this month on Attu Island in Alaska's Aleutian chain.

"I had two friends that were too slow to get out," the 95-year-old Alabama farmer recalled. "They both got bayonetted in their pup tents."

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