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@@@@@Look at the Levine familyThey had such a
@@@@@Look at the Levine familyThey had such a promising son, he had a scholarship to Columbia, and then he got killed in an automobile accidentWhy? What for? They worked so hard to let him go to schoolHe had known the Levine family only casually but he felt like weepingWhy should it be? Other sorrows possessed him, minor ones, major ones, in a suite of random undisciplined wavesHe remembered when his family was very poor and his mother had lost a pair of gloves which she treasuredIt's a hard businessHe had drawn apart from the platoon, from the patrol aheadEven Croft, what will he get out of it all? You're born and then you dieThe knowledge somehow made him feel superiorHe shook his head once more
Minetta was sitting beside him"What's the matter with you?" he asked sharply, his sympathy guarded for Goldstein had been Ridges's partner Goldstein sighed, "I was just thinking He stared down the corridor they had hewn out of the jungleIt extended in a reasonably straight line for almost a hundred yards before bending around a tree, and all along it the men in the platoon were sprawled on the ground or sitting on their packsBehind him he could hear the steady chopping and macing of the machetesThe sound depressed him, and he shifted his position, feeling the dampness of the earth against his buttocks"That's all you can ever do in the Army, sit and think," Minetta said"Sometimes it's not so goodI'm the type of man it's better for me when I don't think so much
"Yeah, the same for me Minetta realized Goldstein had forgotten how poorly he and Roth had worked, and it made Minetta like himHe ain't one of these other guys holdin' a grudgeThat made Minetta think of his argument with Crof |