Letter to Audience

The military lives by the concept that the only easy day was yesterday.  In other words, even though yesterday was hard, today will be harder and you will have to work harder and do better.  If you do well one day, you will have to do better the next.  It’s motivation to keep working hard because there is always room for improvement.  If you beat a record, you can beat that record yourself again.  This is why the book is called “No Easy Day.”  I intertwined this concept throughout my genres because I feel that this is a very important motivation for the military to always do better and keep improving which makes our army so powerful mentally and physically.  My thesis was arguing that Matt Bissonette’s purpose for writing the book was to establish that it’s okay to write about your military experiences as a method of coping with their trauma.  This concept is important to the thesis because it even reflects the after-life of war.  A veteran should be able to live comfortably after serving for their country but many times this is not the case.  Many soldiers face the effects of posttraumatic stress disorder, which shows the difficulty of life after war.  I wanted to research how this affects their daily lives and what many soldiers do to cope with its effects.