Mark was further shredded into thousands of tiny paper pieces.The shredded pieces fell onto he floor of Mark""s loft and into the open comic book he was reading, with the empty frames now filled in and illustrated with his death(# 3 death).He was assisted in sitting up - he took a drink of water and ate a glob of blue synthetic food, but like an infant just learning o drink, he dribbled out the water (due to a slowly-recovering swallow reflex).And remember this: our men must always feel they are still commanded by us and not by the Japanese.So long as they have that idea to cling to, they""ll be soldiers and not slaves." Shears knows better through experience: "I hope they can remain soldiers, Colonel.As for me, I""m just a slave, a living slave."Both commanders blindly follow their own rigid military codes, soon coming to an impasse.The next morning, Saito orders "the English prisoners" to finish the bridge by a rigid deadline - the 12th day of May, working under the direction of a Japanese engineer.To allow better concentration, Geoff orders the piano player to stop playingTurkey in the Strawin the saloon.