Stop Loss

Soldiers sometimes have no choice but to return to the army. Either they are forced to do so, such as King in Stop Loss, or they can’t make it out in the public world outside of the army. For those who do not choose to go back and are angered there are not many ways they can express their feelings. They could boycott the army but usually there are harsh consequences. They could also come up with legitimate reasons for not going back, but again it’s hard to get out of. The army is a tightly ran institution. Sometimes they have no choice but to seek asylum. Also in some cases they don’t mean to. In a lot of soldiers it is hard for them to live in the world with out war and it affects their daily life. This makes it harder for them to go back to war and it makes their home situation much worse. Freedom is never achieved when leaving the war. The soldiers are permanently stuck with a stigma that can be viewed as good and bad; for reasons other than the views if war is good or bad. There aren’t a lot of methods of dealing with the issue of stop loss, there aren’t loop holes and there aren’t ways around the law. Soldiers sign up to give their life away, they don’t have much say in the aftermath of war.