Enemies of War The sky glowed with live ammunition. Paul was racing through a field and he plummeted into a dank trench. Moments later Paul was startled by a French soldier who fell into the trench with him. He instinctively stabed the man three times until the man fell to the ground. Paul was overcome by the reality of having killed a man face to face without the luxury of the battlefield around him. Paul …showed first 75 words of 456 total…

…showed last 75 words of 456 total…we can salute too well.” (p 40) Saluting was an unmistakable sign that the men were blindly loyal to the very people who were slaughtering them. Paul did not realize the great obliviousness of the soldiers until later into the war when he said. “I see peoples set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.” (p 263) Paul died glad that he was free from the “mysterious whirlpool” of war. (p 55)