20, 2013 Yuma: Beginning Anew What do many people typically think when they hear of Yuma, Arizona? The vast majority of people would think that Arizona itself is just a desert region that greatly resembles an old western movie. On the contrary, however, Arizona -especially Yuma-, is a beautiful place that has invaluable history with the Native American tribes in the area and military history going back to WWII with General Patton and his troops with the Yuma Proving Grounds and Yuma Air Station
In October 20, 1917, the U.S. Army’s oldest active proving ground was established located in Aberdeen, Maryland. Chemical weapons were developed on these grounds, and the U.S. Army used the Aberdeen Proving Ground to develop, test, store, and dispose of chemical weapons. Three chemical engineers named Carl Gepp, William Dee, and Robert Lentz, who were high-level, senior management levels at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, would eventually become notoriously known as the Aberdeen Three. In 1976 the Resource
In Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, Chris McCandless is often portrayed as a fool, depending on one’s perspective, due to his reckless decisions that ultimately led him to death. McCandless seeks a wholesome, authentic life by which he believes he can only concur in nature, and he believes to achieve this he must cut off ties with his family and past. Much of what leads to Chris’s foolish actions is his hatred for materialism and how a typical person lives their day-to-day life. Chris’s disdain for