It’s March now. I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve been on here. Guess I’ve been pretty busy. Anyway, my team from the battle came down for a stand-down and they’ve been here a little while. It’s so nice to see them all again because it’s been so long since I have. They’ve been telling me all kinds of stories of what happened while I was gone. I like hearing these stories a lot because they bring me back to the field, the sense of danger, and risk.
In the first story they told me, Bobby Jorgenson was brought up and I remembered that he had to be with them. I still hated him for almost letting me die out there. I never forgot what he did. I’d been thinking about it for a while and I wanted revenge. I wanted him to feel how he made me feel. “For all my education, all my fine liberal values, I now felt a deep coldness inside me, something dark and beyond reason. It was a hard thing to admit, even to myself, but I was capable of evil.” (191) So, I asked Mitchell Sanders if he’d help me out in getting revenge and when he said no, I asked Azar. He was very willing. We would mess with his head while he was on night guard duty. I was pretty nervous about it actually; I know that it was cruel and wrong but the lines between right and wrong had blurred. We made him believe he was hearing things and going crazy. And finally, we released these “ghosts” from the trees and scared him so much. But then, he understood. He got up, went over to the “ghosts” and shouted my name. then he shot the “ghosts”, which were really just sandbags, and it was called even. Now, Jorgenson and I are almost war buddies, and that’s how I plan to keep it.
The Resurrection is the eleventh stage in the Hero Journey. This is when the hero faces his final task of defeting the enemy once in for all. In this post, Tim talks about his revenge against Bobby Jorgenson for almost letting him die. This represents The Resurrection because this became his final stand off with his near death expirience. Getting revenge against Jorgenson was O'Briens final closure of the Ordeal. I interpreted that really, it was not only Jorgenson O'Brien was getting revenge against , but death itself. He hated the fact that he almost died and O'Brien needed closure from that. In the end, he got what he needed and was able to be "almost war buddies"
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