Leper had enlisted in the war, yet it still didn't seem real to me. Early in January, a recruiter had came and shown us some pictures. Everything looked nice and it was the cleanest war images I had ever seen. This was a turning point in Lepers life. He said, "It's all right to miss seeing the trees and the countryside and all the other things when you've got to be in a hurry. And when you're in a war you've got to be in a hurry" (116). Within the next week he was gone. We matched all the newspaper stories with Leper. We made jokes that torpedoed and bombed countries. Finny didn’t take part of these jokes in the butt room, and soon took me away from them too. “How do you expect to be an athlete if you smoke like a forest fire” (119)? From then it was just Finny and I, training to the Olympics. Finny decided to have a Winter Carnival, which brought out the peace again for a while. At the end Brownie Perkins had brought me out a telegram. It said, “I have escaped and need help… My safety depends on you coming at once” (129). It was from Leper, and he needed my help.
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