Citizen Soldier

After discussing the video Citizen
Soldier in class today I replayed it several times. To
respond to Mr.O'Connor's blog I think that the target audience of the
video was people ages 17-25. These are people who are young, fit, and
probably have an education. Unlike the army, which is basically a full
time thing, the National Guard is only a once-a-weekend commitment
which gives you more time to focus on your studies. The "hero's" in the
video are young, white men that are portrayed in the revolutionary war,
World War II, and 9/11. There is one African-American woman and the
only man over the age of 40 is the higher ranking officer giving the woman a medal.

Besides the actual people in the video who knew that war was so glorious? Not
one person is showed dying and even when the British soldiers are being
shot at you don't see one person falling down. Isn't that beating
around the bush? Even during the D-Day scene, where in reality hundreds
of Americans lost their lives, not one person is killed. The National
Guard, in my opinion, do a very good job at hiding the bad things about
war and only showing the positive heroic sides of it. If war really
looked like what I saw in that video then I would defiantly sign up. No
blood, no dying, lots of people loving year, earning a medal or two,
then why not? However, you have to look at both sides of what the
National Guard is trying to show. Even if that means having to face the
fact that there is a war going on and that people are dying every
single day from it. I think that people have to really look at these
types of music videos and realize that not everything you see on screen
will really come true.