Enemies / Friends

I enjoyed both of these chapters and found them to be both comical and tragic. The dynamic between Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen is funny because it doesn't seem right that a man would can beat down another man and break his nose would be so paranoid over them later. Jensen's paranoia could serve as a side effect of the war where you constantly have to be on guard of your life and I suppose he feels that he's wronged Strunk and Strunk deserves to be vengeful and it gets to the point where Jensen feels the need to call it even and break his own nose. Again, there is irony because Strunk did indeed steal Jensen's knife which incited the fight to being with, however, Strunk met his fate when his leg was blown off by a mine and he was the one who was paranoid that Jensen was going to kill him after they had previously made the pact to automatically kill the other if one should ever receive "a wheelchair wound."