War is one of the most powerful threats we have on Earth today. War can result in various things and in different ways and it is entirely up to the government to decide a country's war stance. It is up to individuals to experience not what they created, but what happens to the soldiers they send to fight for them and their families. For the soldiers, they are trapped in unprecedented involvement, stuck with memories and images of what it means to be chased by an opposing soldier. Different types of people feel different effects of the war front and are affected in different ways, but big changes after a war are inevitable. In the stories “The Red Cabriolet” and “Home Soil,” the authors tell what the returning soldiers experience and what kind of change they can experience. These stories tell you about the psychosomatic changes that occur in a soldier's mind and how war affects their personality and mannerisms. The book "Home Soil" is the story of a son and a father, who were both armed forces in two very different wars and it also tells of the changes that occurred in them after their two war experiences . Before going to war, his son Bohdan was an outward-looking young man. He was like a regular guy who liked to have fun. In high school, he started playing bongos to try to make himself more popular with girls. He taught himself after having acquired all the basics thanks to a record called "Let's Swing the Bongos". He took them both to war when he went, and both books came back broken, symbolizing the changes in his previous personality. His father pointed out to him that he now walks like a soldier...... middle of paper ... because war only disrupts the harmonious environment of the family, causing families to break up at the thought of lose a loved one. Children do not fully understand why their parent(s) is leaving them. Once the soldier returns, the child is even more confused. Even if a soldier returns physically unharmed, the mental damage could weigh heavily on the family for years. Since a good number of soldiers suffer from PTSD, it can lead to serious and even fatal problems. Works CitedErdrich, L. (2009). The red convertible. Geurs, K., Geurs, K., Sanchez, R. and Sabaroff, R. (1987). Domestic floor. Los Angeles, California. Mooney, L.A., Knox, D., & Schacht, C. (1997). Understanding social issues.Minneapolis/St. Paul: West Pub. Webster, N. (1995). Definition of PTSD. In the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. New York, NY: Pocket Books.