Along with a tremendous amount of gear the soldiers carried there emotions. Constant fear of death. The longing to go home and be with their families. The sadness for their fellow soldiers who have died alongside them. The feeling of anxiety, that they could be attacked at any second.
Ted Lavender was shot in the head while taking a piss outside of a cave. He was always high whether it was from weed or tranquilizers. Ted Lavender was constantly taking tranquilizers and always carried 6-8 ounces of weed. Ted Lavender succumbed to anxious pressures. He was a man of war. Drugs kept him steady. Drugs gave him a feeling that he couldn't have anywhere else. In a sense as the other decreased in moral and withered away he stayed mentally sane. Drugs also could of been the reason he died. Maybe the constant high began to wither his fear of death. Maybe the constant happy feeling made him forget. Fear was the only thing, for the most part keeping these men alive. The lack of the fear of death could of caused Ted to not be as cautious as he should have been leading to an untimely death.
They are all related because they all happened in the same time period.
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