Post 5, The Things They Carried, "Friends" and "Enemies"

Summary
In the chapter "Enemies," Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen get in a vicious fistfight because Strunk blamed Jensen in stealing his jackknife. Dave Jensen was much bigger than Strunk and ended up pinning him down repeatedly punching Strunk in the nose. Strunk was gone for 2 days and came back with a metal splint and had became very paranoid and very cautious about his whereabouts. It was all in his head, the tension he thought he had with Jensen. Strunk went a little crazy and started firing his gun in the air then sat for a couple hours. Later that day he grabbed a pistol and broke his nose with it, went up to Jensen and asked if "everything was square between them"(p. 61). Jensen said everything was fine between them, and later Jensen laughed about how he was crazy and said he stole his jackknife.
In the chapter "Friends," Jensen and Strunk became close friends throughout time and gained each others trust. They had each others back on everything. Jensen and Strunk had made a pact that if one of them was seriously injured in a wheel chair that the other would find a way to kill him. Strunk had stepped on a rigged mortar round taking off his right leg up to his knee. He begged Jensen not to kill him so he didn't. Strunk later died in the airplane over Chu Lai.

Response
I think it is crazy how Jensen and Strunk had gotten into a serious fistfight with each other, knowing one could have gotten killed by the other and managed to become friends in the next chapter. I mean I could understand how that happened because your enemies will always be straight up with you. I can relate to this because at one point in my life I had gotten into a fight with a girl and we became close friends after that. You start to gain some type of trust in a person after you fight them. It's kind of weird when you think about it, but it does happen.