Status Updates From Invasion

“They were full of piss and vinegar and wisecracks.”

“The difference between people was not so much what they did but what they carried around in their heads.”

“I need somebody to care for, and maybe somebody who would be waiting for me when I got home…I was going to have to learn to be a civilian one day.”

“‘I am a shadow…there is nothing to a shadow. I am not a man anymore.’”

“I had always thought…that you grew from the inside, that the person you were had magically come into being as you grew and absorbed your surroundings. But what surrounded us in the weeks over there could not be absorbed. My eyes saw, my body felt, but I didn’t want to see or feel, and so I turned away.”

“‘There’s no use in worrying yourself about milk that’s already spilled or whether somebody else’s pancakes are going to rise.’”

The mood is suspense. It is a rough time for America and especially rough on the soldiers. And it really makes the mood of the story very suspenseful.

At this moment in the book and in real life, there is a war going on. The book title is called invasion which Russia did to Ukraine. They invaded Russia with tanks and planes instead of boats though.

it's an intense mood

about to break down, wild, nasty, a hell of a fight

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