Unnamed Soldiers Who Write Letters

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2015-07-02 14:29
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"All the Dead Pilots"
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Unnamed Soldiers Who Write Letters
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Unnamed Soldiers Who Write Letters
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Unnamed Soldiers Who Write Letters
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
MultiClass Group
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
First Mentioned: 
WW1 Europe: Wing Headquarters in "All the Dead Pilots" (Location)
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At the end of the War, the assignment of the narrator is to read letters going from the front back home to make sure they don't reveal any military information. He seems to have real sympathy for both the soldiers, who write "transparent and honorable lies . . . in the script and spelling of schoolboys," and the "mothers and sweethearts" they are writing to (512).

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