Jason Poole By Jerome Grady Summary

Denise Grady’s (2006) article sound a strong wake up call for the American government and for the American public to re-evaluate their guiding principles towards war in Iraq and the continued presence of the American soldiers in the Iraqi soil. Grady delineated the enormous damages the war had costs in not only monetary terms but also the future of thousands of promising young and talented men and women sent in the Iraq War; that had no clear benefits to them or the American people. The story of Jason Poole as presented by Grady is a clear picture of the ravage of the potentials of soldiers in the face of war, and the wrong priorities of the American government in spending billions of dollars for the war that have no clear advantage for them or
341). Poole is still very young at twenty-three and it seemed unlikely that he will spend the next fifty years of his life idly on his $2400 a month pension from the government. After all, it was during his tour of duty that he was brutally injured. Grady noted that people like Poole who has suffered crippling or brain injury or whatever disability in the Iraq war, needs community resources to help them realign their lives after their injury. In this, I agree totally. Nevertheless, although Grady powerfully conveyed his idea of the war in Iraq by using the story of corporal Poole, the feelings of the readers are focus on the need to stop maintaining the war on Iraq. While this is important and urgent, it seems that the author had deliberately allotted limited space on other victims having similar or may be even have worse situation than Poole. I believe that the story would have been more forceful if the writer had cited at least a few more people whose situation is as colorful as with