It then goes into the niece’s personal reflection. They go through old letters Amoo sent back and analyze photographs sent back to the family with other personal items. In these photographs they note small details that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. Details like Amoo peeling apples to the white dust on his feet. What these details help to do is to assert that Amoo, who was just a soldier in a war to many people, was a real person with individual traits that the war erases.
"it was his bare toes
that made me cry
because I realized then he had toes
and because dusted in the white
desert sand they looked
like a corpse's toes
while his hands worked off a peel
inches above the earth"