Throughout the introduction, the idea that those who were fighting in the wars were trying to kill people who they didn’t know and may have gotten along with. This idea was emphasized when it said, “Thirty Eight years before, one tried his damnest, as a loyal member of his crew, to sink the other’s craft about 200 miles off the coast of West Africa. Now they reminisce, wistfully”. Also the same concept was highlighted when a veteran discusses how he felt about the men who fought against them by saying, “These were boys like us”. This idea shows how bad war really is, and how during them people are murdering millions of strangers with families and lives just like their own.
The introduction also talked about the difficult living conditions and other struggles of being a soldier during the war. One veteran remembered back to his wartime and getting back to camp and said, “First thing you talked about is what you wanted in your stomach” This quote showed how the soldiers didn’t care as much about the luxuries of life but simply cared about the absolute necessities such as food and water.
A third subject of the introduction was the life of the people at home during the war and how they were impacted by the war. The introduction discussed the difficulties of home life such as being separated from loved ones and being afraid of what attacks might come. One quote that captured this idea was, “What I feel most about the war, it disrupted my family”. This quote showed how people struggled to cope with the absence of loved ones and the losses of brothers and fathers.
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