A horrible tragedy befell us today. I would have never believed that this would have happened. How naive we were yesterday. We continued moving like regular yesterday, packing up before the sun had even risen in the white sky. We trudged across the snow carefully as we could, trying to avoid branches and such. Louis and Daniel both seemed better after a night's worth of sleep. However, Louis still wasn't looking too good. I brought up these concerns with Lawrence and he helped me carry my countryman. He slowly got worse and worse.

  It wasn't until it was too late that anyone noticed us. Louis had already begun hallucinating severally. We all stopped and laid him down in a tent we had set up very quickly. He looked at me and smiled sadly, his eyes showing something I could only describe as an amused look.

  "It's nice like this, with you guys," he told me in French, "You're all alone now, Felix. Think you can handle it without me?"

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  His smile turned into a snicker and he leaned his head back and closed his eyes for the very last time. We burned his body there. There was no purpose in keeping him for tomorrow. Another man gone because of our poor choices. Another person that we can't afford to lose. He is the sixth boy gone out of our unit and I am afraid that there will be more. His death has an effect on our unit, however none as much as I. My own countryman is gone. He was right; I am alone now. I cannot handle it, despite what everyone thinks. I am not alone in the boys of the unit, yet the culture they all share. We are all different. From dear Angelo to Lawrence to Yuri to Mosao. I am now the only person from my country in this unit. None of them understand French and the way I live like Louis did. I will never again have that.

  Yet, I feel like this split is for something more important. Perhaps the reason it exists is to not isolate me from them, but bring me closer to them. until I learn to accept this in my heart, I am fatefully alone.