Braden, Steve, and Tom are fellow countrymen, comrades-in-arms, and good friends.
Both Braden and Steve's seasons are up. However, when going through the retirement procedures, Braden received an order saying that he had been re-enlisted into the army. He went to the superior to complain. He took out the contract, which said that "re-enlistment" can only be done in times of war. But the officer didn't listen to him at all, saying that he disobeyed the order and there was a possibility of escaping. On the way to the cell, Braden knocked down two guards and literally drove away.
Sergeant Brendan Leonard King, a second enlisted in Afghanistan and Iraq, completed 150 combat missions in Iraq without complaint, for which he received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
However, due to the shortage of soldiers on the battlefield, if there is any new conscription, they will send back the soldiers who were supposed to be discharged. This is actually a covert conscription.
Braden ran away not because of fear, but because he couldn't bear the cruelty of murder in his heart.
"It's not at all an army-to-military war as we imagine it, it's fighting in an alley with civilians armed with weapons."
"I'm fed up with killing people, I don't want to take people to kill anymore."
Bryant wants to go to Washington to get help from congressmen.
Steve's girlfriend, Michelle, drove him there.
On the road, Braden visited the parents of the dead comrade-in-arms "Missionary" and told them: He died without pain, he died in the arms of his best friend.
They went to the hospital to see the disabled comrades who had only one arm and one leg left, were blind in both eyes and had burns all over their faces.
A comrade who had been fleeing on the road for 14 months also told him:
"During the war, the country had no judges to oppose the military. What it's like to run away, you can't get a job, you can't cash checks, your phone can be tapped, you can't even go to the doctor."
"You might as well write a letter to the newspaper editor if you go to a politician."
Braden called the congressman's office, and the secretary told him, "The congressman can't see you because you're a deserter. No government official will help a deserter."
His comrades asked him to go to New York to find an anti-war lawyer. "He can help you cross the border to Canada."
1,000 yuan to get a fake identity to go to another country, pretend that someone else is alive, and spend a lifetime there. "You don't exist in America from now on."
Michelle can't stand Steve agreeing to "re-enlist" without consulting her. But Steve felt like a warrior, not a deserter.
Braden said to him, "Yes. You have the right to be stupid."
Brother Tom, who was threatened with dismissal from the army because of repeated drunkenness, committed suicide. Brendan, who was on the run, had to return for a funeral.
Steve couldn't understand why Brendan had left all of this.
Braden told Steve: Everyone has a small box in their heart, and they put all the things in their hearts that they can't bear into that box. But my little box was full, it overflowed, and I couldn't put it in any more. My heart was full of those comrades who died by my side.
He left the farm and drove overnight to the Mexican border.
He said goodbye to Michelle and her mother: "Across the border, the me over there is no longer me, but just my ghost. There will never be farms, parents, and hometown. I will never be able to get rid of this shadow of war."
Braden was on the bus to send off the recruits, and the parents and Michelle saw off below. Steve sat next to Braden, and the two didn't seem to know each other. Is this true? Is it a fantasy? ...
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