Escape and Evade: James Young

Reading these three chapters was some what hard for me. What i grasped from them was just a lot of incidents of soldiers from the 7th Calvary being injured. It was actually quite sad to here how many people were getting injured. A story which stuck out to me though was about Specialist 4 James Young. I thought he was very brave to handle being on his own for a few days while on Enemy territory. His decisions when he was behind the NVA was very smart when he choose to throw the grenade at them since they were focusing there attention the other way. He was very lucky though to have found a hiding spot and convinced the teenage NVA to not shoot him. I was happy though when he was found and taken to the hospital in the US. It was even nicer to hear that he was able to see his family for Christmas.

Even though Young was just a specialist, i thought he had growing leadership qualities in him. I think the personal courage he showed was very apparent. He did not just chicken out right away, he thought of ways that he could help his Company while he was in a dangerous area. He also did not let his guard down and while in his hiding spot, there were a few times the NVA walked past him and he kept his cool so that they would not find him.