BTW, many of the military families find the Army's new slogan "An Army of One" to be untrue - one of the first things that they pound into your head is that you are a cohesive unit not an individual.
Paul Smith wrote:
Here's a completely unrelated question I was wondering about this morning. It seems to me that the advent of war films has produced something that didn't really exist a hundred years ago: a popular image of "soldier" ("sailor", "airman", etc.) based largely on fictional ideals (pretty uniform depictions, if you'll pardon the pun) rather than on our interactions with the real thing (surely far more varied). I wonder what effect, if any, this has had on the actual behavior and attitudes of those entering the military. I imagine that people come to the military with certain fiction-based ideas about the role they're going to take on. But I could be completely wrong - perhaps the contact with reality overwhelms the fictional ideals immediately, or perhaps people who actually enter the military these days have enough contact with real military before entering that the fictional role is already replaced by a more realistic one.
Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee
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Dr. Deborah S. Briihl Dept. of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA 31698 (229) 333-5994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chiron.valdosta.edu/dbriihl/
Well I know these voices must be my soul... Rhyme and Reason - DMB
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