I'd say answer choice A
it seems his expectation of war was not met, like he had a whole blood bath in mind(like a movie) but he ended up just doing standard jarhead tasks, not heroic missions like he was told war would be like
im just a high school student tho
Answer:
The theme the author wants to get across is to avoid condemnation of others for occurrences we can't understand at the time, because the same thing could happen to us in the future.
hope this helps :)