Just Ignore It..

O'Brien writes,

'What this was, it was a shit field. The village toilet. No indoor plumbing, right? So they used the field. I mean, we were camped in a goddamn shit field.' He imagined Sally Kramer closing her eyes. If she were here with him, in the car, she would've said, 'Stop it. I don't like that word'

This is an example of how O'Brien compares war to life. O'Brien describes war as a shit field, like it was a horrible place to be. Life can also be bad and filled with bad events, just like how the men in the war experienced bad events. War isn't the only place where bad things happen. When bad things happen, people would rather ignore it than call attention to it. This connects to life because in the quote is gives you an imagery of this girl Sally Kramer covering her ears and saying that she doesn't like the word he uses to describe war. It's just like how in life people ignore the bad things especially if it doesn't affect them personally.