The narrator would go to the hospital to receive treatment for his knee; there he was in contact with others who, like him, had been wounded in battle. The lives they had lived before the war were different, and their battle with both the enemy and with life separated them from those who had not fought this battle. It also drew them together, "We were all a little detached, and there was nothing that held us together except that we met at the hospital every afternoon. . . we felt held together by there being something that had happened that they, the people who disliked us, did not understand." The American soldier, though bonded to these men by experi

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