"How do you return to the real world when only other soldiers can understand how you've changed" (Swofford 12)? This is what almost all soldiers feel when they return home from war. People question them about what happened while they were there and ask how many people they killed when they were at war. For them, the house simply doesn't feel like home anymore. When soldiers come home all they want to do is forget everything they've done until they're ready to talk about it. Diaz states: "we didn't talk much about the likelihood of his return to war" (16) . This shows that when soldiers return home from wherever they were stationed, they just want to visit people they haven't seen in a while. They don't want to talk about everything that happened during the war. If soldiers talk about something to do with war, it's usually something to do with people coming to feed them or someone coming to talk to them while they're at war. They don't want to have to think about the difficult times they experienced during their sentence. While at home the soldier may also find it difficult to do everyday things, such as sleeping. “The soldier will sleep restlessly” (Swofford 12). “After a year or more of sleeping on the desert floor or in a cot, a mattress will feel dangerously comfortable” (Swofford 12). Soldiers are not used to something soft and comfortable to sleep on, so when they have something like that it is very difficult for them to function. What would it be like to be taken away from a comfortable mattress for more than a year, forced to lie in the desert or on a cot, and then suddenly be placed back on something very comfortable? In "Soldiers Home" and in "Hell's Corner, A Moment of Beauty", they talk about how all soldiers are exactly the same. If people look at a photo taken by a soldier during a war, it is very difficult to distinguish one person from another. No one really has their own physical appearance. Diaz says, "with their military haircuts and desert khakis, they all looked the same to me" (16).