jarhead

Well I never saw the motion picture about this book, heard it wasn't that good by a few people, and lost interests in seeing the movie, but the book well i find it to be quiet alright. From the very begining of the book this young man expressed himself fully as to what his feeling and expecations were when he first signed up to serve in the armed forces. The fact that this very young man choose to serve his country was quiet noble but sadly with the realizations that he had mad a mistake , well that i found to be quiet sad. " We joke about having transferred from the Marine corps to the Oil Corps, or the Petrol battalion, and while we laugh at over own jokes.... we laugh to obscure the tragedy of our cheap, squandered lives with the comedy of combat and being deployed to protect oil reserves and the rights and profits of certain American compaines..."