post #2 "When I Was a Soldier"

What i have read since my first post is the following:
Valerie is still getting used to life in the military, she along with everyone else in her company is having to wake up at 4 in the morning and goes for runs that are kilometers long.  Not to mention the food which she refuses to eat, the only nuterion she has is the yogurt that she gets with her food supply in the army and when she returns home to a feast of her mothers making.  When she does return home to her family and friends she feels seperated not only from them but from herself, as she describes to Raheal life just becomes robotic while in the base, Raheal is terrified for her boyfriend Freddy who is about to turn himself into the army for desertion.  After her visit home she must return to the base and upon that time she learns that she will be firing a weapon.  Just the thought of killing another human being scares her to the point of tears at which point her corpral comes over to comfort her by telling her that the women only will have to shoot at someone in self defence.