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      "First of all, I can't believe you [sic]'d me.   Second of all, ..."
        Now you'll have to [sic] me back; let's just not start a [sic] war!
    I admit Kimmelstoss could be a symbol to the group for the military organization itself, but I would disagree if the army hadn't had so much practice in closing the loopholes. I believe that each and every individual of the group is intelligent to find and exploit any and all loopholes they can find in the army regulations. The only problem is there are none to find.
    Another thing I can't understand is how an employee of McDonald's would see customers as symbols of McDonald's itself. However, I can certainly connect to it far more than soldiers, I've seen McDonald's employees being jerks to their customers with my own eyes.
        As for the number of death symbols, I can't even find individual symbols. Virtually everything in the book so far has been intertwined with death to an amazing degree. It seems as though from the first chapter and there onward, every remark has some connection, regardless how faint, to death.

      "hole in the ground = grave .... irony of live soldiers hiding in a grave... thoughts?"
    Not only were they hiding in a hole in the ground, they were actually hiding inside a grave the hole uncovered. That's not the only point in that particular chapter in which the irony of soldiers hiding in graves is made obvious - some of their company's soldiers died in the graves they were hiding in to stay alive.
    Irony isn't really something I'm capable of explaining. It's like sarcasm, satire, or hyperbole - how can you not get it? If I were to write a satirical post regarding a chapter of All Quiet on the Western Front as a happy and joyous book, how can you not realize I'm not serious?
      Of course, then again, I live in a household where sarcasm is a constant instead of an unknown.
  Sometimes when our cat is purring contentedly on the couch we'll comment on how we torture her or
  how we wish she would learn to relax.