He describes freedom and democracy in similar ways, describing how they are all illusive terms, meaning different things with varied levels of significance for different people. Joe goes on to mock the importance the government places on these terms when he says that if something was worth dying for, than that something would be important enough to be thinking about in their last living moments...
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He asks "So did all those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and the safety of the home and the stars and the stripes forever? You're god dam right they didn't" (117). He believes that these terms are nothing more than words that the government has used to convince the "little guys" that their lives are worth losing for their country...
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