"In late August they made a pact that if one of them should ever get totally fucked up-a wheelchair wound-the other guy would automatically find a way to end it. As far as I could tell they were serious." (pg. 65)
These men cannot seem to deal with a body that is less then perfect. Azar for example exclaimed that someone seemed to not have enough bullets to finish the "poor" one-legged kid off. It is as if to be alive is not enough. it like thinking, "Yes i am alive but i am disabled. I don't want to live." Such thoughts make me wonder if that is the type of people that sign up to be in the army or if war makes people think that way, maybe it's both. But even so it's saddening to think that people in this world think that way.
Although, remember this was Vitenam, so they were likely drafted.
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