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The nurse writes on Joe's chest, Merry Christmas. He starts to try and tap out some more Morse Code, and she finally realizes that he is trying to communicate. She can't understand what he is doing, but she assumes that he is doing Morse Code, something she does not understand. So she goes out and finds someone who knows Morse Code. It's a man, and the first thing that he taps out to Joe is, "What do you want?" To Joe, this is a stupid question. What Joe wants is to become an exhibit. He wants to be apart of a sort of freak show, where he could make a profit. He wants to do this because he wants to show people the horrors of war. He wants to be able to interact with people, and he wants to be out of the hospital. He suggests this to the man, but the man replies back by saying that that is against regulations. The army does not want to show him to the world because it would be bad publicity for the U.S. government and the idea of war. They like the idea of saving Joe's "body" but they do not want him to be able to think, they just want him to lay there, and stay alive. They don't care about the inside, just Joe's physical stability.