AWOL

One of the passage that I found interesting from "The Things They Carried" was on page 35. In this passge, it talks about a guy going AWOL and be treated by a nurse. This passge shows an instance of a peace story. It states, "A guy goes AWOL. Shacks up in Danang with a Red Cross nurse. It's a great time ---the nurse loves him to death---the guy gets whatever he wants whenever he wants it." The story talks about a guy who is unable to tolerate that enormous amount of peace so he went back into combat. I think that the soldier feels the need to go back to combat because he felt unease from all the calmness and joy. I can sort of understand why the soldier wanted to go back to war. It was probably because he was bored. This passage caught my eye because of the paradox that it had: "All that peace, man, it felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back."