Why or why not?

" The necessities of condoms and gunshots, six miles from from in this little village on the Batangan Peninsula."

This combined text is from the book on page 85, the poem " The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" and from my first journal entry which I had to list of all the things the soldiers carried in the first chapter.

This book is relevant today because of the war in Iraq. I personally want to read farther into this book because I am someone who is looking into going into the Navy; for which I want to know what they do at war. Unfortunately, the Navy barely goes on land unlike the soldiers in this book. this book is relevant today because teens and most people is curious about what they do at war, how's the feeling of war, and what to carry during war. I mean, maybe not to others but I think that people today is curious about this war in Iraq. So, this book is relevant today!