Chapter/Story #21-Night Life

Its amazing how the war drove Rat Kiley so crazy but its also understandable. His thoughts seemed liked they could've never been thought of, its hard to explain them. The "night life" seemed like it was scary because a lot of humans already have this big fear of the dark so its hard to imagine operating at night time every night with no sense of direction and mostly silence amongst the soldiers. War is capable of driving your mind into an insane state. I can't imagine thinking the way that Rat Kiley did. This book is helping me understand the difficulties soldiers face in war but its not hard to understand how they're dealing with it because they're forced to. Anyone would find a way to cope with it if they don't want to die. The land of Vietnam even forces Rat Kiley to think that the bugs are after him which is incredible. That whole piece of land was considered the enemy. Its like Kiley could already see his death coming, he already pictured the corpses of people who were alive. That's insane.