It had a grisly, frightening aftermath when they noticed a badly-burned/fried State Trooper from the crash stumbling towards them from the wreckage.(Freddy""s death)Kristen cradled a dying Nancy in her arms:"I""m going to dream you into a beautiful dream forever and ever.Facing toward each other, they almost touch and fall into each other""s arms, but refrain from doing so.She said you made excellent progress in school and therefore I am going to arrange it so it won""t be necessary for you to return to the cotton fields.You hear me?"In the pouring rain, Chris resumed his narration - he ending to his first letter - about how the war might teach him something about life as a rite of passage:(voice-over)Maybe I finally found it way down here in the mud.