Isaiah Smith’s Reviews > Off to War: Voices of Soldiers' Children > Status Update

These were the last stories of the book, and the first one was of a kid who had his dad killed in action in Iraq. One quote was really sad. When asked what his advice to other military kids is he simply said "I don't know, I'm not a military kid anymore." The other was from a story of a soldier who served in Iraq and protested the war when he got back because he thought that the occupation was unjust.

The kids that have parents that are in an active warzone always have a question on if their parents killed anybody. This section was a kid who learned that their parents had to kill several people from a helicopter. They had a lower opinion and disgust for the war even though they said that they understand that sometimes you have to kill to survive in war.

One thing that I noticed so far is that the children of military families are more mature for their age. Without their parents with them, they are forced to do things that kids don't do for many years.

This book is different military children talking about their own lives, so ethos is definitely present. The kids also appeal emotionally because they express the different emotions they are feeling, like missing their parent, an example of pathos. For logos, some kids argued for and against the war in the middle east, with facts, displaying logos

This part of the book was military kids reacting to anti war protests. Most of the time, they are mad at the people that mean to them or the soldiers.

This part of the book was informational about the effects of having a parent in a war on their children. Trauma can extend to every member of a soldiers family.

This section of the book had older kids that could understand why their dad or mom was gone. Often they had to comfort their other parent and their younger siblings. Not a lot of attention is drawn to the families of people serving in the armed forces

Most of the children in this book that I've read so far have been too young to understand what the military is doing overseas, but they do understand that they have one or both parents missing and possibly in danger.

This book is a collection of stories of children who have parents in the military. They find it hard to understand why they can't see their parents who have been deployed.