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A Soldiers Home The willingness to risk failure-as difficult as that can be-often leads us to remarkable discoveries about ourselves and our world. But on the a nonher(prenominal) hand, not taking risks can save us from amounts of devastation and heartache. I think that was a major principle for Krebs in the short story, Soldiers Home. later going to hell and back, its almost inevitable that eachone under the circumstances would be completely overwhelmed by all that Krebs had experienced and risked. He risked his life, and was then throw back into a society that he had been absent from for years, and finds that its all the slender way that he had left it, except he says, Nothing was changed in the town except that the young young ladys had grown up. In Krebs case, after go from war, he had become a completely different person. Distant, quiet and depressed. He didnt hope to risk any complications. He didnt want to risk any part of himself ever again. He didnt want to work for what he wanted, he had worked hard enough and had been through a lifetime of disaster. All he wanted was to sit back and ripe continue. Not enjoy life, not experience new and better things, he just wanted to live without any complications and without taking any risks. He mentions that he would like to shake a girl, or more so wouldnt mind. But he doesnt want to work to get her, or do anything drastic to get her attention. It would just all be to complicated. He wants no commitment, no strings attached. He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live without consequences. Besides, he did not rattling need a girl. The army had taught him that. For Krebs, asking out a girl would be a risk and lead to complications whether good or bad. And taking that risk just wasnt worth anything. Krebs was dead inside. Not intentionally, but subconsciously. He knew not of what he was doing.