They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you canโt kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.
Walter Dean MyersI joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
Walter Dean Myers