Soldiers Loss Of War

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Although a war is fought between nations,it is really fought by individuals who stand

to lose everything in the process.The things the nations lose is nothing compared to

what each and every soldier loses.

Even after the war is over and the soldiers go home to their families,the war isn't

over for them.The actual war is over,but the war in their own head has just began.Many

soldiers can't adapt to their lives after the war.Sometimes they aren't ever the

same.Some soldiers get mental diseases that changes them for the rest of their lives.

In the book it shows that people often change after the war.Norman Bowker came

home from the war and nothing was the same.He was a nobody in his own town.He

realizes no one really cares about him.He

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