I truly couldn't understand what was so wonderful about these people who were wanting to put on these shoes and parade with them on, especially when they were ignoring their families who were probably happy to see them alive. But I understood when I finished it. It was a wonder piece, the only thing that strung it together for me was when Saunders tried to replace the memory of what had happened and what was happening with the innocent (yet destructive) fun of their youth.
Though if I hadn't chosen to read this piece for class I could have stopped after the first two or three paragraphs and maybe picked it up for a different day.
There are times when everyone wants to think of something else than what is happening.
It is also a piece that shows that these people knew what they were doing when they join up with the army, and yet it also shows what it can do to a person. It was a touching piece by the end of it.
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