While attending church, a medic named Dunbar reflects on how he doesn’t hate the war but doesn’t like it either. He thinks about how the war has hurt him and the violence that other people have told him about, but after church, the lieutenant asks him to report for parade duty. He goes home and changes into his uniform, then joins the other medics.  A Marine lieutenant is brought in crying from pain, and Dunbar finds that he can’t look away from his face. However, a kid begins to tug on his leg to ask for his straps to be taken off so he can look out the window, but Dunbar doesn’t want to because he would have to redo the straps again. He attempts to smile at the kid who begins to repeat, “Don’t go.” The kid asks if Dunbar can hear the lieutenant crying, and he thinks to himself how he could possibly ignore it.  Later, Dunbar helps clean and dress a man’s torso wounds before taking a short break in the ambulatory ward. He sees another kid in the ward, but after seeing that he has no injuries, Dunbar asks what is wrong with him. The kid responds, “Nerves,” and Dunbar realizes he is a psychiatric patient  but decides the kid would be restrained if he were too violent. The kid begins to talk about how hateful he is and how Dunbar couldn’t understand what he has seen. Wanting peace, Dunbar gets up to finish the last hour of his shift.  Upon returning home to his wife and baby, Dunbar undresses and showers. In bed, his wife holds him, but Dunbar finds that he can’t feel a thing, as if he isn’t really there.