Johnny got his gun

Joe has to get sedated because the nurse has no idea why he keeps banging his head against the pillow and assumes that he is in pain and gives him medicine. This medicine made Joe completely out of it, and caused his mind to wonder. While he is drugged up, he begins to think about the women he saw at the train station. She kept asking where her son was because he was given the option of going to jail or the army, but he was too young. Joe then realized that the boy that women was looking for was actually Christ. Then Joe starts talking about playing cards with a bunch of other soldiers. One of the soldiers says he is thirsty, and then all of a sudden a drink appears to him because Christ made it for him. Then the men start thinking about how they are going to die, because for some reason they all knew how and when they were going to die. With this conversation and riding on the train with all of the men who were going to die, Joe felt jealous and upset. He was neither living or dying so he envied these men who could just die. Joe had to live his life full of suffering and just sitting. He wasn't able to live his life, but he couldn't die either.