Day Six

As I become more and more a part of this revolutionary army, I get to know as to how we work. While we call ourselves soldiers, I think we are more like bandits. Other than the fact that we are trying to help the country and make it a better place for those oppressed poor, we are actually bandits who take money, clothes, food, and guns, all of which are stolen, and all of this only for our own purpose. This is our way to finance our cause. We don’t know of any other way and this is what our leaders teach us. When we seized that large city, one of the first things Captain Mendoza did was to loot a bank and steal money for his airplane, which he justified for use in the war. Even the guns we use are almost all stolen or bartered for. Our clothes, boots etc are all stolen or sometimes even taken off the corpses. Remember Lolo did not hesitate a bit to promptly take those nice, shiny leather boots from the corpse of the loyalists soldier who had just killed in an ambush outside that village. To finance their cause, the revolutionaries kill people, steal their belongings, and go to kill more. Revolutions are usually fought through guerilla tactics using ill trained and brainwashed soldiers who are usually misled to believe the war they are fighting is to improve the life of their poor countrymen. The revolutionist generals usually have good organizing skills but are selfish and not shy of using any means to achieve their goals. The main difference between a revolutionary army and a country’s army is that the revolutionists usually fight from jungles or other hiding places and run their operations in a covert manner.