- Each day at the rec center, Jamie learns more about Vietnam, courtesy of Byrd.
- He was over there in the army and tells her all about the different words they use: A "bac-si" is a medic, and a "grunt" is an infantryman.
- Since Jamie is a pro at developing pictures by now, Byrd suggests she help teach the other soldiers how to do it.
- Jamie enjoys teaching them, and she's good at it, too.
- Byrd loves TJ's photos of the moon. When he asks Jamie about them, she lets her anger at her brother show.
- She's annoyed that she still hasn't gotten a letter from him. All he sends her is film. Who cares about that?
- But Byrd points out that each picture is like a letter in itself. If all TJ wanted was the pictures developed, he'd send them to her folks.
- Instead, it's clear these photos are meant for her—he doesn't want his parents to see all of them.
- Jamie never thought of it like this before, but she knows he's right.
- With the next roll of film, Jamie realizes she's squinting at one image in particular.
- In it, a soldier sits in a wheelchair with his leg amputated. At first she thinks it might be TJ, but soon she realizes, it's not. Phew.
- When the soldiers look at TJ's photos, they get all quiet and squirmy, especially the ones who have never been over there themselves. It's no wonder, too; they show soldiers with their legs amputated and heads' bandaged.
- Later, Jamie stops by to see Cindy.
- Cindy tells her that her brother Mark writes long letters to them often.
- When Jamie asks Cindy if she ever worries about her brother, Cindy tells her no—he's a soldier, so it's his job to fight. This is how Cindy thinks of it.
- Jamie gets this. She's also starting to feel like it might be a bad thing for TJ to be at war, though.