Have you ever wondered what it is like to experience war and fight for your country. War veterans do not always come home ready to open their arms and be happy. You have probably seen those videos of war veterans coming home to see their kids crying hugging them, but for most war veterans they are not all that ready. War veterans see so much in war and learn so much in war they can not unsee. It is hard to just sleep in your bed after 3 years of death and losing people you love. When veterans come back things are different and they are different. They lose their innocence and see things that can remind them of bad things when they come back home. You might think it's crazy when a veteran comes home and tells his family he can not eat without
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“The mouth is full and soft beneath his moustache; the nose is slightly arched, the skin brownish; it is now not so pale as it was before, when he was still alive. For a moment the face seems almost healthy;--then it collapses suddenly into the strange face of the dead that I have so often seen, strange faces, all alike. No doubt his wife still thinks of him; she does not know what has happened. He looks as if he would have often have written to her;--she will still be getting mail from him--To-morrow, in a week's time--perhaps even a stray letter a month hence. She will read it, and in it he will be speaking to her. My state is getting worse, I can no longer control my thoughts. What would his wife look like? Like the little brunette on the other side of the canal? Does she belong to me now? Perhaps by this act she becomes mine, I wish Kantorek were sitting here beside me. If my mother could see me--.” This extremely long quote explains how a young man, Paul, had to kill someone in war and realized how barbaric he was and he lost his sense. He killed someone's son and husband, even dad. He can never forgive himself for what he did. He lost his innocence as a sweet teen who just graduated high school. He is now a enemy who killed someone's beloved son. It is messing with his mind and realizing that if his friends and parents saw him this way he would be a different man to
“The mouth is full and soft beneath his moustache; the nose is slightly arched, the skin brownish; it is now not so pale as it was before, when he was still alive. For a moment the face seems almost healthy;--then it collapses suddenly into the strange face of the dead that I have so often seen, strange faces, all alike. No doubt his wife still thinks of him; she does not know what has happened. He looks as if he would have often have written to her;--she will still be getting mail from him--To-morrow, in a week's time--perhaps even a stray letter a month hence. She will read it, and in it he will be speaking to her. My state is getting worse, I can no longer control my thoughts. What would his wife look like? Like the little brunette on the other side of the canal? Does she belong to me now? Perhaps by this act she becomes mine, I wish Kantorek were sitting here beside me. If my mother could see me--.” This extremely long quote explains how a young man, Paul, had to kill someone in war and realized how barbaric he was and he lost his sense. He killed someone's son and husband, even dad. He can never forgive himself for what he did. He lost his innocence as a sweet teen who just graduated high school. He is now a enemy who killed someone's beloved son. It is messing with his mind and realizing that if his friends and parents saw him this way he would be a different man to