prompt #1

[supergirlsam03]

HEY GUYS!!!!! So this is the first entry and I'm going to start off by giving an overview of what happened in my opinion. So the beginning was a little hard to get into because the author was just telling us what each man carried; physically and mentally. But one problem I ran into was I had a hard time remembering who was who? Anyways as the story

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Cross, the thumb

[anonymous]

Me too. When I started reading the book I was like, how am i going to remember all these people. Also I thought Cross seemed very much like a stalker. It seemed at first like he hasn't even talked to Martha in person other than the letters. It seemed to me like he just loved her because she was just a positive thing to think about while the war was going on. And also, I was wondering the same thing about the thumb. Can someone answer that? I am really confused about that.

PS. I AM MAG89 I JUST DON'T KNOW WHY I CANT USE MY USERNAME SO I HAVE TO USE ANONYMOUS FOR A WHILE SO I CAN POST

response to sammi's

[shkluckystar14]

In Sammi's post she talked about how much Jimmy loved Marsha, and shes not wrong because that is what the book says. I just think that he idealizes her and uses her as an escape mechanism, and obviously it worked because when he was checked out of reality Ted and others died.

Re: response to sammi's

[mancoff]

his dreamings about the girl are irrelevant, sure ted got shot, but it was from a sniper. and because he was thinking about someone else instead of ok so one guys off at the pisser its his fault the guy died?

Re: response to chris's response

[supergirlsam03]

In a sense i suppose your right it's not entirely his fault however It was Jimmy's responsibility to manage the men so maybe if he was paying a little more attention to what was going on around him then maybe Ted wouldn't be dead. And at the same time they all knew what kind of an area they were in and that they could be shot at any second. Which is why all of them shouldn't let their guard down especially Jimmy.