It is in fact comparable. I have read the book before but thats beside the point. It seems as though the summers can be brutally hot at times, and in comparison to Vietnam, war life was just like that. Although Lee Allan and Lloyd are both younger than a vietnam soldier would be at the time, it is a young age for a boy who is barely a man to be in war. Without a doubt war should never be the answer but in this case young men had no choice, just like Lee Allan and Lloyd. It seemed to me that over time just like a soldier they have to deal with constant death. Weather it be the life of a loved one or even people of your community. Soldiers would find friends as they were there to keep occupied on there troubled journey and constantly loose them to gunfire.
The 2 boys have to constantly deal with this but over time it just comes natural to them. They have built there lives around this havoc that occurs and in relation to everyones backyard its almost part of them. It is the way they grew up, the way they know change, and in every respect its natural for that to be happening. In such a terrible neighborhood nobody wants to bother to find change, as they are all morphed into this lifestyle.
-martin
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