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A) because you know you were not the true cause of what happened. they feel those who feel this way should be able to see that they had no control over it and separate themselves.
B) She believes it is a way to make sense of the senselessness of a tragedy.

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Moral logic with soldiers is a way that they are connected and everything they do and happens to them is connected as well. When you are that close with someone in battle, the guilt of not dying when someone else did is connected to all the ways they worked, laughed, planned and grieved together. There had to have been something they could have done differently to change the outcome.

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A) Bonoenberger’s experience happened at home after a soldier was killed by policemen after a bar fight. He was saved 2 times by the soldider in the field, but he was not there for him to return the favor and save him at the bar. Prior was in the field with the soldier and felt he was responsible by not changing the order or setup of things that caused the misfire. They both dealt with a soldiers connection and out of their control.
B). Both of their stories support the idea of soldier guilt and needing to find a way to think they could have changed the chain of events to help their friend.

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In this story, survival comes with a burden of always feeling the need to watch out for those around you and those who helped you. Surviving comes with a price of forever guilt when you survive and someone does not.