"Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo: The Conflict of Life and Death

The Conflict of Life and Death
<Tab/>"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." Dwight D. Eisenhower, former General and President of the United States of America, had the right to say this, faced with the horrors of war throughout his career. Eisenhower knew the ferocity of war inside and out, from the vantage point of both a soldier and Commander in Chief. He knew what was like for Joe Bonham, a small town boy, forced to go into battle for a war that he knew nothing about. While struggling in…