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After Guardsman Bowe tells the Kipling family that Jack was killed by an enemy shell after reaching the German trenches, Rudyard thanks him for the information. He doesn’t forgive Bowe for leaving Jack in the trenches, but he also doesn’t lose his composure. The fact that he thanks Bowe suggests that, at the very least, Rudyard is grateful to have some sense of closure surrounding Jack’s disappearance.
What makes Rudyard feel even better, though, is the idea that Jack was “courageous in the face of considerable enemy fire.” This, it seems, is why he repeats what Bowe has just told…