the things they carried- 14

in this part of the book i read from pages 78 to 83. In this part of the book Rat kileys best friend Curt lemon died because he stepped on a booby trapped 105 mortar round. Rat was so sad he was crying and trying to get a hold of himself. Later that day they were walking and they ran into a baby water buffalo and they caught it and used it to haul their stuff across the land. Then rat tortured the buffalo because he was so sad he shot it in its ears and its mouth and everyone did nothing. I found that so f*cked up. If i was in a situation like the i would have punched him right in the face and beat him down. I dont think that there is any reason for an animal to be tortured because of someone else problems. He had to get over what had happened. He did after a while though.