Even Mann never had such dreams.
So even though the bullying within the army was severe, the cafeteria provided pitifully little food, and their wages were endlessly delayed, they endured.
Until they participated in the Latin American war, they completely fell into a nightmare.
"We harbored ideals of becoming heroes when stepping onto foreign soil, only to have officers and veterans tell us to aim our guns at unarmed civilians and fire, claiming they might be potential terrorists."
"We used flame throwers to burn down every village, kill every person we saw, committing rape and pillage... A Christian comrade of mine couldn't bear these things and shot himself. Perhaps in those dead people's eyes, we were the terrorists."
