What Killed Sergeant Gray?
The radio program was not what I thought it would be. The information was very personal and shocking, it was not a bed time story. Who knew that the people in Iraq were coming back home not happy, but depressed and overwhelmed? The soldiers in Iraq are dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that has consumed their lives. These effects are putting a burden over their lives and it is not something they can just forget, it lives on with them. As in the Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, connections can be made with this documentary because the protagonist Kurtz or Sergeant Gray have dealt with experiences leading them to PSTD. They have been scared, leaving them with feelings of war and visions that they don’t want to be replayed. PSTD combined with their personal experiences and feelings leave them extremely miserable. With this, it leads them to be “crazy” and for Sergeant Gray he committed suicide and Kurtz became terminally ill.
