This has been my comfort read for too long... I feel like a part of me is in each of those characters, yet they are so different from each other. If you look at it, there isn't much plot, but the characters really drive the story home.
And there lies the brilliance of louisa may alcott
"We need to make small sacrifices to appreciate the effort of others to protect us and the country by going on a long journey, even it means of not going home alive and by sacrifices of changing the way we live and pray to the god that this soldier will come home with a victory and alive. "