Army Noodles and Ketchup!
GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Electra
Age: 22
1./ If you could have one job, what would it be?
An entrepreneur, if that is the big word that means I get to make lots of money. Maybe I’d own my own business or something; I’m just not big on taking orders from people I don’t respect.
2./ What are your four worst qualities?
I’m quick to anger. I keep my feelings bottled up and then they can burst out. I also have a wicked tongue that I’m happy to say pulls no punches. I’m also quick to hold a grudge, if you loss my trust it will be hard to earn it back.
3./ What are your four best qualities?
I can get it done, no shades of gray I’ll do the job that needs doing. I’m good with languages. I can put people in their place. I’m protective of those that deserve and need my help.
4./ Describe yourself in five words or fewer.
Wounded eyes that still see.
5./ Describe your leadership style.
I’m one of the guys but I have the experience so the guys will follow me because I know what to do and I have conviction behind the orders I give.
6./ How do you think others would describe you?
Quick to temper, dangerous, tormented, and strongly possessed by my ideas. The world is black and white at war.
7./ When under a lot of pressure, how do you manage it?
I get harder. I’m a natural; in the throw of things I can do my job if it is fighting the enemy. Though, I do find it hard to see the cruelties of war done to those not in uniform.
8./ Pick one that describes you the best.
a./ Introvert or Extrovert (self-motivated or action/people-motivated):
Introvert
b./ Logical or Intuitive (go with concrete fact or trust your gut):
Intuitive
c./ Thinking or Feeling (follow your head or follow your heart):
Feeling
d./ Shy or Outgoing:
Outgoing
e./ Optimistic or Pessimistic:
Pessimistic
9./ How do you show that you care about others?
I’ll talk nice to them, only a few barbs and only in good fun. More I’ll show it through actions and a helping hand.
10./ Give us a quote.
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror I can take the next thing that comes along.’” - Eleanor Roosevelt
11./ Who is your hero and why? (Does not have to be anyone famous.)
Every man, woman, and child that survived those slave camps. They could have given in to the pain, the hunger, the death all around them but they didn’t; they survived and they have flourished. Such senseless hate was so hard to swallow but they took it each day, they lived in it, and they still lived. That is heroic to me.
QUESTIONS RELATED TO BAND OF BROTHERS
1./ Favourite soldier in Easy Company. Why?
Speirs, he knows what has to be done and he does it. He pulls no punches and makes no apologies for what he has to do in war. He does his job and he does it will.
2./ Favourite episode or favourite chapter in the book. Why?
Bastogne or Breaking Point. They are both set during the most trying times in the war and show how far these men had to stretch and how strong they really are; how strong a person can truly be.
3./ If you had been alive in World War Two and eligible for military service, what branch would you have joined? What job would you have wanted (infantry, artillery, medic, pilot, at all.)? Why?
Paratroopers of course, I want to jump out of planes and get paid to do it. Medic, because even if it wasn’t my job I don’t think I could lie still while one of my fellow soldiers was screaming for help.
4./ Okay, so now you're in the military. What is the one thing you want to send or bring home from Europe?
A stone or a little jar of dirt from each place we dropped, each country where someone I knew fell and a Lugar of course.
5./ The war in Europe is over. Would you be willing to go fight in the Pacific? Why or why not?
Of course I’ll fight, I won’t turn down my duty to my fellow soldiers or the opportunity to kill more of the enemy. Though, I will say that I wouldn’t mind us sitting it out because who knows what travesties we will have to see over there, how many more we’ll lose.
6./ What are your plans for when you return home?
Get a job, make money, and live life for all those that didn’t get to come home, that didn’t survive both the battles and those horrible camps.