Love and Spin

In the Chapter, "Love" the horrors of war don't seem so horrible. The narrator talks about how Jimmy Cross, the love sick lieutenant, comes and visits some twenty years after the war. It seems as though Jimmy Cross met back up with this fantasy woman of his, which I didn't really believed was real in the beginning, but apparently she is. She still doesn't love him though.

In the chapter "Spin" the narrator talks about the peaceful times at war. He describes it like tense relaxation almost, as if they could relax and even get bored, but then they would hear gun shots in the background and have to put their guard back up. It was quite sad when I read about the old man that lead them through mine fields and them giving him hugs and just connecting with the natives, it's kind of sweet almost. I thought it strange how the narrator told about Azar blowing up a cute puppy (the puppy wasn't described, but i'm assuming it's cute) that Ted Lavender fed and slept wit. How ruthless can a person be? And Azar's response to it all was "I'm just a boy." Some soldiers just don't seem to value life; to just kill without thinking. It's sad.