The war took a lot of emotional toll on people, it destroyed their personal identity, their morals/humanity, the passion for living was lost and the PDS they will suffer after the war, resulting in soldiers understanding what war really is and what is being concealed. There are scenes that support the thesis about the war like "For the rest, they are just names without faces or faces without names". Chapter 2, p. 27 which show how the soldiers became emotionally detached from life. Also, when the novel says: "I saw their living mouths move in conversation and their dead mouths smile like corpses." I saw their living eyes, and their dead eyes that still stare at me. Without the fear of going crazy, I would have found it an interesting experience, a journey the likes of which no drug could produce. Asleep and dreaming, I saw the living dead; Woke up, I saw dead living men. Which, to me, once again shows how soldiers change throughout the war, losing their morale and humanity. Finally, his saying: "I'm no longer afraid of death and I don't care if I live or not" is the moment where I notice the change in Phillips.