Between both Ron Kovic and Paul Baumer, they both share deep remorse for killing another human being. However, they both experience the remorse at different periods.
This is exemplified in the film Born on the fourth of July when Ron Kovic the All-American soldiers starts to have nightmares about a devastating event that begins to haunt him. The event begins when Kovic and his group of soldiers kill a massive number of Vietnamese civilians while mistakenly killing one of his fellow soldiers who he thought was a Vietnamese soldier. Kovic tries to fight the thought of the memory in his mind, but once he returned home from the war he starts to have nightmares about that day while in the hospital, and also when he goes to the home for retired Vietnamese soldiers in Mexico.
Another example that expresses the deal of remorse but is different from Ron Kovic comes from the book All Quiet on the Western Front with Paul Baumer who gets his first kill while stuck in a crater in no man's land. Paul gets put in a situation where he has no choice but to face what he had done as he had killed a French soldier and watched him die in front of him. Paul talks to the body expressing his regret of killing another man: "today you, tomorrow me " (Remarque, 226). Paul begins to think that he might not make it back to his trenches out of enemy territory. He more so believes that his fellow soldiers might shoot him (Remarque, 227). This goes to show how after killing a soldier nonetheless a civilian, a soldier must take various measures to deal with death.
The experience of home is very different in soldiers, especially after returning home from war. After dealing with the experiences of the war, soldiers also take on the experience of returning home to where things are different from when they first left. One of the things that are most often different when soldiers return home is their family, friends, and even the community .