1. The things they carried
Jim Cross, the platoon leader carried photos and letters from a girl back in America, Martha. ... We know that "the letters from Martha, Jimmy Cross's love, weighed 10 ounces- (2), but we don't know how much Martha meant for Jimmy Cross, and even Cross doesn't even know until Ted Lavender gets shot, and Jimmy Cross has an epiphany, a revelation and realizes that the only way to deal with the war is to get rid of the objects relating him to home. ... Lieutenant Cross has a pebble from Martha. ... There is another section in the book where a man named Jimmy Cross comes to visit ...
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