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A Soldier's Friendship

Amidst muscle-aching training, ear-splitting booms of weapons, and grisly images of torture and death, lay the men who voluntarily commit themselves to this state of life—the state and life of war. Despite these terrible aspects of war, marine men continue to defend their country and fight its enemies side by side in a unique soldier friendship. In Anthony Swofford's Jarhead, the lives of these men are put under a microscope and the reader closely watches the men's interactions with each other within a new environment during Operation Desert Storm. In order to cope with this unfamiliar way of war life, the soldiers begin to bond and these loose acquaintances later blossom into strong friendships, especially those between Swofford, Troy, and Fergus. Among the atrocious aspects of war, friendships help soldiers survive life at the front because they act as an escape from the harsh realities of combat, allowing them to find inner peace amidst conflicts......

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