Today was kind of a let down for me. When Juan told me that Captain Mendoza stole money from a city that had been captured to buy an airplane my view on Mendoza and the Revolution had changed for the worse. I mean how could he just steal money from those people who put their money in the bank when we are fighting this war so that everybody can have a better life? I don’t get it. I had always thought that Mendoza was an honest man, a good man, but I guess I was wrong. How could Juan say that to win this war we need to fight dirty, if the whole point of winning is so that people can live an equal life? Can an army full of forced soldiers actually try to do the right thing or have they already given up and are just there to serve their time before their death?
This got me thinking about how the Revolutionaries are run, and the anger and sadness rushed back to me and I started thinking about how they would just come through my village and pick people to join their fight to death and cover it up by saying they “volunteered”. Maybe they don’t have real volunteers because they aren’t actually doing what is right for everybody. I also thought about how we came to that village that had been killed, and what did we really do? Nothing. We didn’t even arrive in time to save a whole family.
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