rough draft

Rough Draft
Is it an act of cowardice to go to war for the wrong reasons? Should other peoples thoughts effect your decision to go? Do others opinions matter that much to drive someone to war. To Tim o’Brian this was very much the reality. Tim’s idea of courage is to stand up for what he believes in. he was just a kid back then, a scholor that thought vietnam was unnecesary. Yet, he still was taken into the war and fought it all the way through.
Tim’s perception of courage is to stand up for something that he truly believes in. He did not belive in the vietnam war. He felt that it was pointless and was baffled as to why he was sent a draft notice. He thought that he was too good for the useless war, but he still went anyway.
Tim spent a week on the border of Canada to think about his choices of being exiled, or to go to war. On his last night on the river, he started to cry. He realized that if he didn’t go, people would call him a coward. It was other peoples influence that pushed him into the war. He sucumbed to peer pressure, despite not wanting to go at all.
This shows that going to war for Tim, was a cowardice decision. He went to vietnam for the wrong reasons. He had fought the war that he oppposed. A scholor that was put to war because he couldn’t handle the thought of friends and family looking down on him.
It is an act of cowardice to go to war for the wrong reasons. To go to war for reasons of the people around. The decision to go should be made and carefully thoughts and ideals, not the ones of others. In Tim o’Brians case, he was a coward for going to vietnam. He was a coward for fighting a uselsess war and risking his life to get the approval of his family and friends. He fought for all the wrong reasons and not for his own.