His first impulse, he thinks later, should have been to protest like he did over the idea of going AWOL. To say they don't need to get anything, they don't need any fuckin papers with anyone's say-so, they can just walk away.

Maybe he'll never know why, instead, he just follows. Why he feels like Radar's right, and this is forward, this is the way they have to go.

Shh, shh comes the sound of the corn behind them, and the sound of the waves on the sand ahead of them.