Chapter 13 text

After school was over we all started packing and were about to head home. The school donated its Far Common quadrangle to the military for a parachute riggers’ school. This meant that the military would come towards the end of the summer and see us. Brinker too me down to the Butt Room to meet his father, his father told us that he wished that he were younger, so that he could fight in the war. I told him my plan to avoid the danger of the infantry by joining the navy and Brinker’s decision to join the coast guard. His father said after that he thinks that defending your country is honorable and that what you do in the war will be an effect on your life, either good or bad. He was not very nice about my opinion and Brinker could tell. After we were done talking in the Butt Room Brinker apologized to me because he knew his father was being pretty rude to me, especially meeting me for the first time. As I was talking to Brinker, Leper, and Quackenbush we were all thinking about how we all wanted to enlist in the war and how much it would've effected all of us and how much it did effect Leper, and in the end that is why he decided to come back. Coming from Devon we were all too shy for the military and the war. In memory of Finny we all knew that he was the nicest and the most caring and always the strongest out of all of us, and he probably would've been the most successful either in the war or in something else important.