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"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum
The characters views in this novel - particularly the ODSTs - felt a bit forced. We are talking about an event that took place 40 years ago to some kids that are of no relation to these characters and probably not even from the same home worlds; an event so far displaced from the cast in terms of time, location and relation. So it is not really on any sort of personal level that I would expect to give the reactions that Vaz has before really becoming friendly with Naomi. (Wishing to be a part of a firing squad that takes out Halsey) Furthermore, it is overshadowed by the recent war with the Covenant, an atrocity that far outstrips the Spartan Program with its pure evil, yet they seem to care a lot about the Spartan II program, sometimes more so than the Covenant. I would think that they would be so jaded that they would not give a damn, further compounded by the fact that it did not affect them, was 40 years ago and that they themselves do not have children.
It is like reading about killings in the newspaper or watching the news about homicides. They happen all the time, and they do not affect you (Hopefully, most of the time), so people get jaded towards it unless of course it is a really grotesque crime. They feel bad about it, maybe a little angry over it, but then they forget it within 10 minutes of putting the paper down. Halsey's program like I have said is eclipsed by the evil of the Covenant, so all this drama over it seems a bit forced.