Caputo has started his job as the casualty reporting officer, where he verifies body counts, identifies soldiers, and handles matters related to insurance and burial specifications. The job, which requires Caputo to have a more detached and objective view of death, disabuses him of his association of death with tragic romance. Here, it does not matter how each man died, for every corpse appears the same. Death becomes a great equalizer, collapsing differences in race, for example. Due to the countless bodies that Caputo sees each day, most of whom he does not know, they appear less real for him…