Restrepo Blogging Assignment

In the Book, Restrepo, and Fallen Angels, There are many similarities and perspectives one can tell during war.  For example, in both Restrepo and Fallen angels, it explains how terrible the feeling is when one of your friends passes away in combat, Jenkins in Fallen angels, and Restrepo in Restrepo.  Also, the soldiers explained their feelings towards the combat in the war with everyone during the nighttime in the base, while the soldiers in Restrepo do the same.  There are also some funny parts to the war, like in Fallen angels, how Perry and Peewee are in a spiderhole, and also in Restrepo, when the opening fights start, the soldiers have fun with each other fighting the enemy.  There was also some humorous parts in the book, like when a soldier tans in the sun, and in fallen angels, when peewee puts cream on his face, which makes it swelled.  Also, in  restrepo, when they work as a team in battle against the Taliban, in fallen angels, Peewee and Perry, and their squad do the same.  When the soldiers in the afghan war are scared in battle of their enemy, Perry and his squad feels the same because they are fighting on the enemy’s homeland, and use guerilla tactics.  The feeling is also mutual when the American soldiers in Afghanistan write home to their loved ones, American soldiers in Vietnam do the same because they are not for sure if they will live or not.  When the American soldiers let out a flair for Restrepo, the enemy spots their location, and same in fallen angels when they let out a flair for help. 

Fallen angels and Restrepo both showed many similarities and differences during wartime, specifically the Afghan war and the Vietnam war.  Both watching the movie Restrepo and reading the book Fallen angels has taught and showed me many of the reality events that happen during the war.  Such as in Fallen Angels, when Perry loses his close friend, Jenkins, at the beginning of the book, and when one of the soldiers loses his close friend, Restrepo, in the movie Restrepo.  War is not pretty, and it is never like that of what they advertise of television.  To realize what war truly is about and to experience what it feels like to be a soldier, you have to go to the war yourself and experience it hands on, by yourself.