friends throughout the training process. It is not until Himmelstoss experiences the war and trenches on his own that he attempts to make peace with them. Haie Westhus was a friend of Paul's in the Second Company. Before the war, Haie was a peat-digger and due to his unhappiness at his job, he plans to continue and serve a full term in the army after the war is over just to keep from returning to peat digging. Detering, another of Paul's Second Company friends, tends to think of
             ...