RBC: Chapter Three.

Out there awaiting the battles to come Henry becomes very much observant of all things around him. As if he is afraid they will be attacked at any time. The men begin to get irritable since they have not been to battle even once yet they have traveled all this way. All they have to show for it is sore feet and little food to eat each day. They have seen no action and some have gone back into the mindset that they will not see any. When veterans come and see them they almost laugh. Their uniforms even show that they have not been to battle yet due to their untouched condition. All of a sudden in the minds t of sleep one of these nights Henry finds himself being yanked up and forced to move. He is surrounded by the fellow soldiers and has no way to run. The men are moving and if he doesn't he will fall and men will step all over him on their way. He begins to think that he never wanted to join the army at all and that it was all the government's fault. Now he has to await his death because of it.They walk into what is finally a battle. Although they are observing it and not fighting as of yet they finally are getting what they have been asking for. Everything was thrown at Henry at once. He was in a daze. He came across a dead man and the reality of war appeared to finally hit him. He was in the midst of seeing this all yet his thoughts were rolling unstoppable. Walking through this actually battle he found that too many things seemed to not make sense. It was as if they were walking into a trap. Henry wanted to tell them of this, but did not want them to laugh at his warning. He began to lag looking up at the sky as if it would bring hope when a lieutenant stopped him. He put him back into pace and Henry hated him for it. He thought it was as if they were just walking in as bait and it bothered him. The regiment stopped to build barricades/trenches for safety, but some thought it better to just stand and await oncoming missiles. It made them more "brave". Some other soldiers pointed to the veterans who were digging "like dogs" and proved them to be full of stupidity. They left one place and set off for another where there too they did the same action of building trenches each time. Henry had no patience. He wanted to go back to camp and saw no point in staying in this place doing nothing, but getting their hopes up. Tensions grew as they waited between the men. They had a desire to fight and when they were not some thought it a waste of time to be there. Henry came upon the idea that the afterlife was the only thing that would comprehend him. He thought that finding a way to be killed would be better than being alive. While waiting he did a lot of observing what was going on in the battle. The loud soldier interrupted him saying that he believed that the battle they were to soon fight would be his first and last. Something just told him that that was how it would end for him. He asked Henry to take an envelope of his and give it to his parents for him. He did this and walked away. Henry was left questioning why.