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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Bonnie And Clyde
1,716 wordsFirst Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of fight pretending. He would imagine romantic camping trips into ...
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Things They Carried
1,718 words... h-as-catch can. At various times, in various situations, they carried M- 14 's and CAR- 15 's and Swedish K's and grease guns and captured AK- 47 s and Chi Com's and RPG's and Simon carbines and black-market Uzi's and. 38 -caliber Smith & Wesson handguns and 66 mm LAW's and shotguns and silencers and blackjacks and bayonets and C- 4 plastic explosives. Lee Strunk carried a slingshot; a weapon of last resort, he called it. Mitchell Sanders carried brass knuckles. Kiowa carried his grandfa...
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Ted Lavender
1,743 words... es of ammunition. You want my opinion, Mitchell Sanders said, there's a definite moral here. He put his hand oil the dead boy's wrist. He was quiet for a time, as if counting a pulse, then he patted the stomach, almost affectionately, and used Kiowa's hunting hatchet to remove the thumb. Henry Dobbins asked what the moral was. Moral? You know- Moral. Sanders wrapped the thumb in toilet paper and handed it across to Norman Bowker. There was no blood. Smiling, he kicked the boy's head, watched...
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Things They Carried Henry Dobbins
833 wordsAll of us have baggage that we choose to proudly carry or shamefully shove in our deepest, darkest closets. We have possessions that are extensions of our own personalities and each have our own sob stories just the same. They all tell their own tales and have great meaning. In the first chapter of The Things They Carried, with the same name, author Tim O Brien simply, yet skillfully informs his readers of the literal and figurative things that his characters carried throughout the war, the oute...
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Things They Carried Henry Dobbins
616 wordsCourage means a lot of things. Sometimes courage is the will to fight and overcome; sometimes it is the foresight to run away. And maybe, when the past obscures the present like the shadow of a ghost, courage is the strength to forget. In his compilation of short fiction, The Things They Carried, Tim O? Brien uses the Vietnam War, a shadow of his own past, to illustrate courage in many ways. ? Stockings? is the story of Henry Dobbins, whose courage to fight comes from a good luck charm: his girl...
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