He stared at the movie flickering on the screen, but he wasn't really seeing it. Instead he saw the boy; the soldier who, in the course of only a few days, had
become his friend. His friend who was now gone. How could someone be there one minute and gone the next? BJ had done everything he could. But
all Radar could think about was having to write the letter to the soldier's family. The one that began "It is with deep sadness that we, the United States Army,
inform you of the death of your son…"