What's The Issue?: Negative Impacts in Military Service

AnnaLysa Toledo

Navajo Nation

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Personal Connection

I chose this to be my topic because I was told stories of how my father's late uncle was in WWll. He passed due to alcoholism after he came back home. My goal is to study and research how soldiers and veterans' health can be affected due to their military service/experience. Another reason I chose to do this topic is because after high school, I plan to join the armed forces. I feel like gaining prior knowledge to this topic will help me to better care for myself while in the military.

Toledo AnnaLysa. Me. July 2023. Personal Photo

Toledo AnnaLysa. Fenton Lake. July 2023. Personal Photo.

Sharing One Skin - Jeanette Armstrong

In the article ¨Sharing One Skin¨ by Jeanette Armstrong, she describes her own ¨Okanagan Tribe, a part of British Columbia… a family of River Indian and a great grandmothers husband was a salmon chief and caretaker of the river in the north.¨ She continues to identify herself through the four capacities of self. The first, physical self, explains that, through our senses, the Okanagan's teach that the body is earth itself.¨ The second, emotional self, ¨heart¨, is used to form bonds with the surrounding and stay connected to each other by the hearts. The third, thinking intellectual self, ¨without substance while moving continuously outward.¨ This is the true self, that has great power and it's also the ¨living source of our life¨. Overall, while using these four capacities, Armstrong is able to elucidate how she uses her connection to her tribe to identify herself.

How Place Names Impact the Way We See Landscape - B. Toastie

Memories and stories are connected to our land as described by B. Toastie in the article, How Place Names Impact the Way We See Landscape. His purpose of this article was to reveal how, ¨place names and the stories behind them define how we perceive and connect to landscape.¨ In most Indigenous cultures, landscape and the Earth are a huge part of their life. He gives his readers insight of three individuals and their stories or opinions of place names affecting their culture. Each individual describes their history of connection to a specific landscape.

Toledo AnnaLysa. Autumn in Action. October 2023. Personal Photo.

Toledo AnnaLysa. Paradise. August 2023.

And Then I Went to School - Joe Suina

In the story, And Then I Went to School by Joe Suina, he describes his life growing up and being forced to attend school. When he was younger, he was truly involved in his community, tradition, and culture. During his schooling years, he slowly unconnected from everything he knew at home. After his yearning to reconnect, he realized that he had no choice but to give up a part of his life.

WWll Post Traumatic Stress

In the article, “WWll Post Traumatic Stress”, it explains what PTS is. It goes into detail about the psychology of how soldiers were affected by WWll. First it explains how events lead up to the stress and how it can be very extreme to the point where it starts to mess with the mental state. It then talks about combat stress, ‘the extreme part’. This is what can cause long term post traumatic stress but it varies from individuals.

Toledo AnnaLysa. Airforce Memorial. Aril 2023

Toledo AnnaLysa. Honoring. April 2023.

Controlled by Memories: Trauma and POW Dominic Martello

In the short article, “Controlled by Memories: Trauma and POW Dominic Martello”, it unfolds the underlying truth of what life was like as a prisoner of war. Dominic Martello, a soldier drafted in 1941, was fighting combat in North Africa for WWll. His unit was captured by the Germans in February. Martello reveals his traumatic moments when he was in a POW camp for 2.5 years until liberation. He mentions how they were treated, punished, weak, and starving.

Voices of the First World War: Life on the Home Front

In this podcast, there were many speakers from Europe willing to share their personal experiences as a civilian during the first world war. There were many topics that were covered in this podcast. Civilians struggled with things as well and faced many challenges during the war. They had to deal with things like a shortage of food, starvation, trauma, fear, depression, and shelter. The population of Britain was also dealing with attacks like bombing and air raids from Germany.

Toledo AnnaLysa. Raising the Flag. April 2023.

Navajo code talkers . image. Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 19 Oct. 2023. school-eb-com.sfis.idm.oclc.org/levels/high/assembly/view/185112. Accessed 12 Mar. 2024.

Native Americans Leave Profound Impact on the Military

Native Americans have always been a huge impact on the United States according to history documents. In this article, it explains how Native American people have helped the Armed Forces. It gives numbers and percentages of how many have served throughout the years. It also mentions the outcomes of getting help from them.

"Warrior Tradition"

"This is our home, it always has been and always will be and we sign up to defend that." As you read through the article, there are three Native Americans Veterans who share their opinions on "why native americans continue fighting for the same government that tried to wipe them out." They share some of their personal expierences before, during and after their service. They are also asked questions of their definitions and understandings of certain topics.

Navajo code talker . image. Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 19 Oct. 2023. school-eb-com.sfis.idm.oclc.org/levels/high/assembly/view/234625. Accessed 12 Mar. 2024.

code talkers . image. Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 19 Oct. 2023. school-eb-com.sfis.idm.oclc.org/levels/high/assembly/view/244064. Accessed 12 Mar. 2024.

American Indians Have Highest Record of Military Service

In the ariticle, it talks about how natives have had the most service members throughout the years. It also mentions the higher concentration of women service members. For most of the wars that have taken place since WWll, native americans have had the most enlistment. By using their native language, they helped win some. In the end, american indian veterans have had the most negative impact of lower income, education attainment and a higher unemployment rate.

ASR in Chinese soldiers Performing Various Military Tasks

Chinese soldiers were put to a test that examined their acute stress responses. In China, the People Liberation Army (PLA) is always the first to respond in major events and has become the main force used to deal with these events. For the test they performed four different tasks: (ER, PT, MSS, OIT). In their results, they found that the different tasks lead to a different degree of ASR. The PT task was the most severe leading to a negative emotion such as: anger,guilt, apathy and anxiety. In conclusion, cognition and emotion regulation are important for the soldiers.

Toledo, AnnaLysa. Sunrise. Feburary 2024.

"I Cry Quietly" A Soldier Describes the Toll of Russia´s War

Combat battle experiences are all different with each person but they all leave the person with trauma. In this interview, Valentyn, a Ukranian soldier in the Donetsk region, tells us about what he does on the frontlines. Through his body language, we can see that this topic is very difficult for him to talk about. He explains that it is a very scary thing to experience and how heartbreaking his job is. His job is to move wounded and deceased troops off the frontline.

PTSD Prolongs War Nightmares for Soldiers and their Children

Their were many different countries that were involved in WWII as well as a diversity of different races. In this article I found, two Japanese adults who were children of WWII veterans spole out about what their childhood was like with their fathers. They spoke out about how abusive or nonverbal their fathers were. They resented their fathers and were happy they passed. Only years later to find out that their fathers were suffering from PTSD.

Chapo, Priscilla. Enlistment Ceremony. October 2023.

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