Its the truth !

Dear Editor-in-Chief,


As we are all aware WikiLeaks has become a very big issue. It has has caused great controversy concerning top secret information about governments around the world.
Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks has been publishing these documents that no one has seen in a website that cannot be shut down. His main goals is to show the wolrd the truth about their governments. He is trying to tell us that our governments keep many things from us. Things that they think is best to be kept from their citizens but in reality what they are hiding is information that it is best for the citizens to see in order to find out how their government as well as their military really is.Videos of soldiers killing civilians and classified goverment documents are being exposed to public. After seeing those videos may only make us lose respect for our own country. The things seen in the video are not so pleasent to see. We experience real soldiers treating a real life sutiation as if it were a video game. The dialouge used by the soildiers is some what of a 14 year old boy playing call of duty. The U.S soulders were shooting innocent civilians one after the other. Some would say that the release of such information could cause great damage to people around the globe and could very well cause a war. And that may be true. Many people right now would love to see Julian behind bars, to stop him from creating a bigger problem. But he is an extremly smart man. Not many people out there have the intelligence nor the power to obtain suck confidential information. This information may or may not have changed the views of many people. Having seen all of the information may raise hate against the U.S as well as all the other countries whos information have been shown to the public. Julian is not an American and he is not in the U.S which keeps him safe from being caught and sent to prison. The U.S has no power to do anything to him , we are guaranteed our First Amendment Rights, which include Freedom of Speech and freedom of Press. As long as these rights are granted to us Wikileaks wont stop. In my opinion Julian is not doing anything wrong. Some may take this the wrong way but all he is trying to do is let the truth be shown. He just wants governments to be transparent and tell their citizents everything. Many may dissagree and say that those documents are kept for a reason and he has no buissines publishing them. But that exactly the point he is showing people thruths that they cannot handle.



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BOMB!

I this situation i should hold them until they tell us more useful information. I would keep them in jail for as long as they decide to tell me where i can find more of about the other location of IEDs being assembled in another location nearby.By each prisoner seperate so they have no way of talking to wach other. I would mostly play some kind of mind game to get information out of them. I wouldnt go with the option of tourtouring them to speak but i would have another way to get them to tell me information. I would interrogate them. Not physically assaulting them in order to maintain a good reputation we wouldn't want to go against the Geneva Accords.
The short term effects would be anxiety the long term would be trauma.

Declaration of War.

The tones of the Germans and the United States were very different in the Declaration of War. The Germans declaration of war came of as more agressive. The United States wanted to be neutral they did not want to be in war with anyone. United States Declaration of War was more clam. The United States was not very interested in getting involved in the militant disputes of the Europeans.They were mostly focousing on their own goverment as well as their freedome and their people. As for the German side they constantly repeated repeated "Statedwar, united and blockade" which gave of bighint that they wanted to be at war. They wanted the U.S. to bring the battle to them because all they wanted was to be as war with the U.S.

Games games games !

War video games for our generation play a big role in many teens lives. Talking about war shooter games and how they are a big controversey portraying the violence of war. These video games are made to recreate scences of war. I know that they are made to entretain teens, as well as show them a little bit about the way war really is. But the only people that really know the way war is are the soilders that have actually fought in war. There is a big debate on wether or not games that portray war should be allowed to exist. Many people would argue that the games diminish the violence that actually occurs in real war. Some games for example are, Call of Duty, and the new version, Black OPS. These games seem to be very popular among teens, my little brother has both games and he always looks foward to getting home to play. I asked him why he likes those types of games so much and he told me helikes them because he gets to shoot people and he likes all the types of guns. These game have TONS of violence, the main point of it is to kill people. Many people may say it is just a game but in my opinion these games do influence teens, it doesnt neccesarily mean that since they play and kill in the game they are going to go out in real life and kill people but they will have a some what more violent point of view. I think it makes them a little more aggressive.

First of these games are made to kill people, if you die then you get more lives. In reality war is not like that, once you die at war you are dead. You dont get more lives, you also dont get to switch guns when ever you want. "There is no reset button" in real life! Soilders in real life may get wounded in war, lose a leg or an arm. They dont only physically get effected but they are also mentally effected. War does have an affect on soilders they are mentally traumatized. Instead when you play any of the video games, you dont get wounded, you dont loose body parts and you are not mentally traumatized, you just turn of the game and keep on living your life.

I dont think that those war games shouldnt exist but i think they should be more realistic, actually show teens how war is. Offcourse there will still be a reset button but somehow they video game companies can limit the violence and make the games a bit more realistic.





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WWI Casualties...

After watching the clip from Gallipoli i saw a lot of unpleasent things. From deaths to destruction everywhere. During WWI soilders did not have it easy , knowing you are always at risk is not something easy to live with. Always being afaid of what may happen next. In the video i saw destruction from the massive artillery such as guns and cannons as well as barbed wire and fires. In the clip i saw many soilders dead or injured. During the was the medical assitance the soilders recieved was not half as good as what they recive today. Back then there were not that many doctors and nurses, most were not so experienced. The tools we have today were not invented back then so when a soilder was injured their wounds would get infected instantly from all the germs going around, all their tools were not sanitized. Being treated at the scene of the even made it hard for everyone to be taken care of instantly. Soilders would get cuts from barded wires and their wounds would get infexted.
During WWI the greatest number of casualties occured, all these casualties had a big effect on all of society. If soilders died at war, more than one person would be effected. For example , the sons and daughters of the soilders, if their father dies at war sometimes even their mothers also went to war, the kids would be left with no parents , no one to take care and watch after them, they would have to be raised with other family members. Or in other cases if the father dies, the mom would become a single mom trying to support the family on her own,she may work very had and might still not even make enough money to support everyone. That is were crime starts becoming a problem because the families or individuals themselves do not have enough money and will start doing anything to get money. That not only impacts individuals but it impats society as well, having so many criminals doing anything possible to get more money. All the casualties effected families as well as all of society.

From weeks... to seconds...

Reading the letters from all the soilders and then thinking to yourself how tough it is to go to war and have only one way to communicate with others, it is very eye opening. It makes me realize how greatful i shold be for technology we have now a days. Way back when the war began many soldiers went to Europe or other countries we have fought in to serve their country. That was what was expected of them,the people being sent were young males who have not even gotten to live their lives. It may have been a teenager straight out of high school who never left home, or someone who may have recently got married or who just had a baby. There were no excuses, they all had to go. Being at war, they were able to write to their families once it a while. They had to write everything they had on their mind everything they wanted to tell a loved one and everything that had been going out in their lives. Then send it, but for the letter to arrive it would take weeks. Just imagine the soilder writes the letter, it arrives weeks later when thesoilder may be at risk of dying at war. Now a days we have text messaging, email, and instant messaging. If i want to tell a friend or family member somthing i cant do it within minutes, even seconds. Instead of feeling alone at war, having no one to talk to i can just send a text message and have someone to talk to instantly. Looking back at the time where all they had were letters and the hope of it arriving on time seems hard. Comparing the way things were before to how technology is now, we should all be ggreatful for all the great advantages we have.