Remains

• "On another occasion"


  Suggests that these events happen regularly. Soldiers have lost feelings, killing is part of the job.
• "Tosses" "Carted off"


  Use of the colloquial verbs, sounds almost casual, makes violence seem normal.

  
  

  Suggests that conflict devalues human life.
• "Rips through his life" "Sort of inside out"


  Makes a graphic, disturbing image, a vivid picture of the horror of war.
• "His bloody life in my bloody hands"


  Conflict makes people make moral decisions on the spot.

  
  

  Use of "my" shows that the soldier feels responsible.
• "The drinks and drugs won't flush him out"


  He can't rid himself of this horrific image that is stuck with him.
• "Dream, and he's torn apart by a dozen rounds"


  The flashbacks mean he has trouble sleeping due to nightmares.
• "Probably armed, possibly not"


  He is still trying to figure out whether his actions were justified.
• "He's here in my head when I close my eyes"


  The guilt is seemingly driving the soldier mad.
• "We" to "I" and "My bloody hands"


  The soldier feels that the death of this man was purely his fault even though there were two other soldiers who did the exact same thing.