This book made me pretty sad at one point. I didn't really consider everybody else that was affected by the attack and what they were feeling. The story focuses just on Marcus which kind of dehumanizes and takes away the magnitude of the tragedy. Up until now we haven't really heard from anybody else about who they lost in the attack or how they took it. A quote that struck me was this, "Mr Glover told his story next. He didn't have anything to say about what had happened, but he explained that he was a veteran and that his son was a good kid. He talked about what it felt like to believe that his son had died, about how his exwife had had a collapse when she found out and ended up in a hospital. He cried a little, unashamed, the tears streaming down his lined face and darkening the collar of his dressuniform".

Mr. Glover sounds like a pretty legit guy, a veteran of some war, and he just breaks down in tears as he's telling his story. I pictured this solidly built guy, probably 6 foot 3 inches, crew cut, with a stern face. And I just can't see him breaking down, thinking about everything that must have happened and how stressful this must have been makes me sad. I don't want something like this to ever happen to me or anybody that I know.

Like I said, this hasn't happened to me on such a large scale and I wouldn't wish that on anybody I know. That would completely break me down and I would probably be depressed for a really long time. My dog Buddy died when I was young and I had him for all of my life and I was so sad when he died. I remember denying that he was really gone and thinking that in the morning he would be there wagging his tail waiting for breakfast to come. I'm over it now but it was a pretty sad part of my life that I don't want to go through again.