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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Bonnie And Clyde
1,716 words
First 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 Jimmy Cross
1,251 words
The Things They Carried What is it that really
helps troops survive war? It is said that faith in
humanity and religion are known to fizzle amongst
times of wars; therefore almost every man will
tell you it was the hope of coming back to loved
ones and family. Ask any man that has been to war
what it was like, what was going on inside his
head, what he felt when he smelled death, what he
felt when he caused death. The answer, inevitably,
will be one that could never be put to words, an
answer th...
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Things They Carried Henry Dobbins
833 words
All 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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