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Those are fair comments, sure. I think the rationale is really that Haldeman was really commenting on the pace of social change, especially for service personn
by gregjwild 11y ago
Those are fair comments, sure.
I think the rationale is really that Haldeman was really commenting on the pace of social change, especially for service personnel, particularly those who served multiple tours. The protagonist hates the horror of war as much as the alienation from the society he is allegedly being forced to defend.
Though I can see why that puts some people off :)
- briholt 11y agoI agree it's deliberate. I took the fleeting scenes and topics as simulating the experience of bouncing from Vietnamese hamlet to hamlet, never really stopping to know anyone or anything about them, then getting whisked stateside for a brief leave in a now a totally changed homeland, only to get sent back to start the process over.