- The soldiers sit in their dugout picking lice from their clothes when Westhus and Detering return from patrol.
- Seeing blossoming cherry trees, Detering's been overtaken with homesickness.
- The older soldiers discuss the lives they'll return to when the war is over, but Albert points out that the younger soldiers have nothing to return to other than school.
- And what can school possibly teach them now? Nothing half as useful as lighting a cigarette in the wind, that's what.