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In the aftermath of an operation south of Da Nang, Caputo and the other marines are ordered to search for any remaining guerrillas, as well as enemy corpses. The soldiers find three corpses. Caputo here describes the third. He nearly trips over it, as though it is merely another object in the jungle, obstructing his path and threatening injury. Despite the clear signs of the boy’s mortality, Caputo refuses to think of him as a dead person and constructs him, distantly, as “a dead enemy,” which renders him more of an object or a lower form of life.
Caputo’s need…