Rat Kiley and Curt Lemon were practically inseparable. They were more like kids playing soldier in their backyard than two young men trying to survive a grizzly war. I suppose that is why Rat felt he had to write a letter to Curt’s sister. I guess that’s why he called her a dumb cooze when she didn’t respond. He must’ve been hurt, I would imagine so. She could have at least responded to the letter. He poured his heart in soul into to it and she just ignored him. Maybe she was too heartbroken to write back or upset. Still some kind of thank you would have been nice.
A true war story never has any morals and if it doesn’t then it isn’t true. If it sounds completely believable and normal then it isn’t true. A true war story has no moral and sounds completely crazy but that is how you know it’s true. So I guess that makes the story of the patrol that heard all those spooky sounds true. That one does seem unbelievable but if you consider the setting they were in, it’s kind of believable. Just think about it. Sometimes when you’re at home by yourself at night you can get spooked a little. This can happen especially if you’ve just watched a scary movie or if it’s one of those creepy quiet nights. You start hear sounds or did you just imagine them? Fear has a funny way of warping our sense of reality.
So maybe the patrol really did hear all the sounds they thought they heard. It was all caused by fear and being in those dark mountains. A true war story also doesn’t have to have a point. The tree that Curt Lemon’s insides were hanging form was jokingly called “Lemon Tree”. Gross, right?? You ask yourself what was the point of it. There isn’t one because it’s just something that happened. I still am confused about what are the criteria for a true war story.
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