Why?
Why did James decide to leave us?
He may have written a note, but his notebook was burned and hard to read.
His career in the army was going very well indeed,
with talk of promotions, commendations,
and commissions in the offing.
A couple of weeks before James died, he put himself onto
crutches by falling off a lamppost. This caused him to
miss a parachute exercise, but he was not out of action for long,
and was still on course for a posting in Canada.
On the day that James died, he was riding a friend's
new motorcycle, and damaged it.
Maybe he was feeling bad about this. He also had a run-in with
one of his commanding officers on the same day.
We probably won't know what else James was feeling.