When the word war comes to mind, what do you think of? For some, it would be the brutality of it. The many losses that happen for a cause. But has anyone thought of what that soldier, who has gone through brutality and loss in the battle field, has to do to cope? Which leads to the question, “How does one cope with the loss of a person in the place of a soldier when in a war environment?” Soldiers in war are surrounded by death, so they must’ve seen their friends meet death on battlefield or illness or other horrible causes.

Perhaps that soldier just grows numb to it. Similar to doing something new, like dance lessons, you are in a new environment, with people you don’t know, and then you get into a flow of things. You get used to starting class with a warm up, practicing certain tricks and then work on the choreography and have water breaks in between. Except for soldiers, they get used to drills, battles, and in that flow would be death of others. The deaths of those that they know  Along with growing numb, soldiers may just learn to move on faster. In WWl to get boys to join war, war was, in a way romanticized through propaganda, or heavily encouraged among the youth. But when the boys are actually in war, they all realize it is not as fun as it seems. And as men die, over and over, those who live are expected to carry out tasks and orders, and go into battle again as if tons of men just didn’t die. Those soldiers would have no choice but to move on quickly from the deaths of their friends.

There could be more that we don’t know of but those are some ways I could only think of how a soldier would cope.