Catch-22 and war

I am only a few pages into the book and I am amazed at how much I missed when I read Catch-22 the previous time, when I was in high school back in Neyveli, in India.

Here is a sampler:

... Outside the hospital the war was still going on.  Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.  All over the world, boys on very side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all he boys who were laying down their young lives.  There was no end in sight. The only end in sight was Yossarian's own ...

War is hell.