Something I lacked for a long time since I became a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, was the ability to decide for a favourite pony. At the very beginning, it was Pinkie Pie, because she is so crazy. Then, as I progressed through Season 1 in January of 2012 and came to "Stare Master", it were Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle who tied for 1st Place.
Joe Haldeman served a tour of duty in the Vietnam War, before he became well known as a science fiction writer.
I'm vacillating between blogging this story as providing examples partway through of the kind of dark humor, even graveyard humor, that sometimes shows up as a coping mechanism in war...