Feature article high points

Some of the high points are the way they pull at the heart strings and call to the patriotism people feel in their day to day lives, reminding people why there is a war on and the plight of the men and woman fighting this conflict face. They used heavy emotional description and a lot of tear jerking stories of fallen soldiers and their families who will never see their loved ones again. I plan to touch on a few of these points, but I don't feel that a lot of that is necessary for my piece.

What my feature article will be about.

The topic I will talk about is a coming home that is typical of back to back tour veterans. When the main unit gets home there is a large amount of press and a huge amount of community support. The come home in the middle of the day, there is a bus of family and citizens who come out to say thak you and welcome the vet home; but when a veteran comes home after staying there is none of that. They come home in the quiet of the night to small local airports, greeted only by the ride home. On occasion there is a family waiting, but usually those with people waiting up at home dont offer to stay in a war zone longer then they have to. The picture that can be painted is sad and quiet, with a very poetic bravada that can only be cronicled by those who have experienced it. You can't express the raw emotion felt by these people unless you were there to share in it, to partake in the woefull happiness and quiet dignity of coming home from a place where they hated you.

Feature Articles

Some feature articles are of members of my community coming home, or news of safe retursor of heroics in the face of danger. Fluff pieces used to be quite common in this country during times of war.

A few interesting facts are that there is an alarming number of college drop outs and alcohol abusers in the community I am researching. Also apparently the number of social programs to help the veterans coming home have gone up in some places and the education of their problems is getting better. The social programs in my opinion are a long time in coming, now with the new treatments for Post Traumatic Stress and other disorders that cant be seen with the naked eye, only felt.

In my newest assignment I am supposed to write about a feature article. Some Ideas I have about my feature article is to write about a football game we will be having here on campus. The sights and smells will be there, and I believe that the illustration will be easy.

The reason I am writing this blog is to present the members of my community with ideas I have. I am really writing this to try and explore some ideas and grow up a little bit while I write these. Growing up in a military family I have been raised a lot by my mother. I love playing sports and I try to stay involved in my fitness. My dad was deployed a lot while I was growing up, but is still a big part of my life. My brothers and I are experts on our community because we were raised in it. Every day we lived it, and now that we have grown up I am trying to understand how that life has changed me, for better or worse. Over the next few months I will try and understand what has made me into the man I am today, and grow a little bit.