Chapter one - got boots?

5 miles behind the front lines of war a team made up of 80 men rest for the night. Paul Baumer (the narrator) is one of these 80 men, although Paul is only 19 himself and his friends were encouraged to volunteer for the war because of kantorek to bad he never had the guts to actually volunteer himself. Albert Kropp (age 19) was supposedly the "clearest thinker" of the group, Muller (age 19) was a physics academic, Leer was was one of Pauls closets friends, Tjaden (age 19) was a lock smith, Haie Westhus (age 19) was a large peat digger, Detering was a married peasant, and last but not least Stanisluas Katczinsky their wily 40 year old leader. 
One of the most embarrassing things at first for paul was the latrine system but worse things made him get over it. The boys went to return the things of a man named Kemmerich so he had them when he returned but when they got to his location they see him resting weakly in a room at the dressing station his watch was stolen and one of his legs were gone, they all knew he would die here but they all seem a little more interested in who will obtain kemmerichs expensive boots. In World War One boots were very valuable to soldiers because they were constantly worn and were ruined in what seemed no time so it was a good feeling to have a nice pair of boots. But as these young men venture forward the last thing on there mind is a pair of boots.