Faith

"GOD GRANT ME

THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT

THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE,

COURAGE

TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN,

AND WISDOM ALWAYS

TO TELL THE

DIFFERENCE" (60)

Soldiers always put up with unbearable things, they live and fight in less than human condition and they presence death daily. Soldiers in Colombia and around the world are underpaid and overworked they fight for people they don’t know and die nameless. Being a soldier is by far one of the most terrible jobs in this planet.

My grandfather was a soldier he has told me terrible stories. He told me things he had to do and live through. He would walk through the jungles in Costa Rica much like soldiers in WW2 for days without rest. He told me on his breaks there was no human force that would make him move, he said a snake crawled on top of him but he was to tired to care. There was very little food, it wasn’t a possibility to obtain it in the jungle. He once crossed a town a nice women offered most of the soldier’s old tamales and even tough they were rotting but he said they tasted like glory. He “can not change the past”(60); in fact if he could he probably wouldn’t because every soldier does what he can and what he needs to. Soldiers are unhappy and the majority would prefer any other job but you do what you can in the conditions you are

In Slaughter House-Five they show Weary's pain and suffering of his feet. Bad footwork and over walking would make all they soldiers bleed and suffer. Some of the things most soldiers express when then talk about war is, how they didn't have their basic necessities, in the book this would mean food and for Colombian soldiers it sometimes mean the same. The only things soldiers have are their faith in god that they will live and hope that they won’t be abandoned.