Quote 79
If your own father came over with them you would not hesitate to fling a bomb into him. (6.74)
War is greater than the idea of family. The soldiers have come to a point in which they believe in killing more than they do in their own family.
Quote 80
We can hardly control ourselves when our hunted glance lights on the form of some other man. We are insensible, dead men, who through some trick, some dreadful magic, are still able to run and kill. (6.81)
What do you think is the "trick" or the "dreadful magic" that allows these soldiers to still be "able to run and kill"?
Quote 81
We are so completely played out that in spite of our great hunger we do not think of the provisions. Then gradually we become something like men again. (6.85)
Throughout the course of the novel, food helps to humanize the soldiers and to remind them of their own humanity.