Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick IV

Matt has a reoccuring nightmare when he is groggy walking around in a haze with his rifle. He is walking around the soccer field where all the Iraqi kids play soccer and he sees the cat that they 'adopted' Itchy. He recognizes who Itchy is and he sees a Iraqi boy and he opens fire right into the Iraqi boys chest and kills him. He has this dream often. I predict that Matt will be sent back into combat very shortly and he will pull something like what he does in his dream and what his new friend Francis did.

I hope Matt gets well and he will be sent back out with his squad and be a notorious leader and get rewarded for it and noticed back home and become a hero, but that won't happen because there is never a happy ending in a army book.

Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick III

Matt's rehabilitation process is going well. He can walk but he drags his right leg, he tries to cover it but Meghan Finnerty the evaluation specialist notices. He meets in her office everyday to update his progress. He has short-term memory loss, he cannot tell facial expressions, or be able to comprehend sarcastic jokes or puns.  Matt meets another solider named Francis. Francis is in the hospital because he's considered loony. He killed his squad leader, on accident. Francis and his squad were driving down a Iraqi road when his Humvee was his by and RPG and the squad split, half fleeing to the left and half to the right. Francis saw a figure in the dark, lasers in and fires. After he walks up to identify the body he realizes he shot and killed his squad leader. Francis was sentenced to 20 years in prison. 

Matt checks up with Meghan, there are 2 MP's waiting in her room as he walks by, they notice his slight limp and Meghan calls him in. They tell him he has a meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Fuch's office, he is escorted there.