Zepp's Last Stand Response

The essay “Zepp’s Last Stand” is about a man named Edward Zepp who was dishonorably discharged from the army after refusing to go to war based off of his Protestant religion. A person higher up than him put a gun to his head when he refused and that was a huge problem on top of the whole ordeal. He went so many years trying to fight it and kept getting denied a hearing. The sad about about him finally being able to get his hearing is that his wife died before he could finally fight for his status. The story tells about his journey from Florida going North on the train to Washington DC to the Pentagon. He relived his story in the military on his way up there and it seems very hard for him to deal with. He realizes that his status won’t really mean anything to anyone but him. When he finally gets to DC he meets with a young lawyer who offered to take his case for free after reading about in a magazine. Not much detail is put into the case itself when he has to fight for his rights, but he does eventually end up winning and getting his status changed to honorable. The article was very hard to follow and it was confusing because it was unclear who he was telling his story to. Other than that, all the information was portrayed in a way that made sense. There was some background information about his family included which was important because is gives character to this person rather than just telling the story of this one event in his life. Overall, the account of his story was pleasing and all the information was very relevant, rather than the other story.