Grunt

This is an excellent story, very well written, concise and emotional. I like how it explores the emotional detachment a soldier is forced to breed while in war and also how this detachment and violence is brought back to the home when the war is done. The line "the United States Marine Corp, "OORah!" had used him up, squeezed him dry and ditched him like an empty tube of toothpaste." Showed how the narrator saw not only her father but the United States Marine Corps. I think the most poignant line of the story was "the heroes in this war were five little girls", this to me seems to sum up the entire story very well. I cant really find anything wrong with this, except that I want it to be longer only because I enjoyed reading it.