It's like the beginning of a terrible joke. How does the deaf, illiterate child soldier communicate with the amputee lacking in one hand and who doesn't know sign language? Not very easily or well. You'd been at it for nearly an hour and little to no progress had been made. No one on base knew sign language. Leaving the situation as a dude who was trying to interrogate you after you'd become clingy when he'd given you a burger when you were first brought on Mother Base.