The other things the soldiers are carrying would be mental and emotional things. Every single one of the soldiers know for a fact that they themselves are scared out of their minds but they don't want anyone to know so they hide it and fight for their lives. Because of this they don't show their fear because the other soldiers will think he will get them killed or something. They also carry the thoughts of what they have back home like Cross. Cross always is thinking about his girl back home and how he wants to tie her to a bed and touch her knee all night long.
Cross is one of the main characters in that is talked about because he is the leader of the platoon and his job is to keep them all safe. What Cross does while he and his men are humping is think about leaving this war and going to his girl so he can love her and do his little weird sex fantasies with her. I predict that Cross is gonna screw up even more like he did with Lavender, Cross was thinking about his girl Martha when he should have been protecting his men right when Lavender got shot. Cross is gonna mess up even more later on and hopefully will get his game going.
How this book and the movie we watched relates is that they both are getting to the point that the Vietnam war was bad and should have ended a lot sooner than it did. The men in the book we are reading are pretty much miserable and all truly don't want to be there. The Pentagon Papers helped the men get out of there, it all relates but a saying of that those men don't need to be in there doing all those horrible things.
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