Day 2: What we are here for

After a day in this camp I wake up earlier than Ignacio and Lolo. But soon later they wake up and we spot some men digging some thing and I ask Ignacio what they are doing and he replies digging graves. Grimness’ came over me and I thought back to the air raid last night and I thought where those the men who died in the raid? Later I ask Juan and he says “5 Men died last night and a new person this morning about as old as you.” Sometimes the captains are nice like on Sundays when we get meat in our beans. When I came across the captain he turned around in a ready attacking position as if I was a loyalist. I could tell he was thinking about his son. He said that we are fighting this war for our families, children, and our believers, also this country has a volcano for a mother, a jaguar for a father, and the children suffer we must try. We are here to fight as John F. Kennedy once said, “Those who make peaceful revolution, make violent revolution inevitable.” Back at the sleeping place where Ignacio and Lolo where just awaking I told them what I did and the where just staring at me in awe. I had this feeling that everybody was glad it was not them that got killed in the raid but nonetheless will pay their respects and grieve for the dead men, they also say that if you make to many mistakes they will leave your body to rot, but im sure that will never happen due to the respect they are showing the dead. After the ceremony my thoughts are different, now I’m thinking we are dragged out here to fight a war but if we die they bury us and then with one chorus of the national anthem they leave and go to kill more people. I’m wondering if the recruits from villages were thinking if the loyalists could do this to a base I wonder if my village is ok. Also I think that this war is just pure murder because like the other 42 wars it won’t change anything! We have never yet won, and if we did win we would just turn into the new loyalists with the presidential election and laws but we the damn, dumb cut-rate country men. Just senseless murder thinking that they will achieve high success but the fact still remains the poor will be poor and the rich will be rich there will still be inequality and we will not have any rights STILL! This will just go around in a circle like it has before, we win this one, in a couple of years we get overthrown, and etc.