To show the abandonment of rescuing, the pain the soldiers had faced to fight for our country to be abandoned, the soldiers fight for their lives for the people, and they don’t even to rescue them. The narrator could have just said “they faced pain” but added how they faced pain because no one friend to rescue them, provoking and opening the eyes of people of how they don’t even rescue the soldiers when they are only risking their live for the safty of ours
