How to Tell a True War Story | Characters
Stink Harris
Stink Harris has a very small role in this story, although he figures in other stories in The Things They Carried.
Dave Jensen
Dave Jensen is a minor character in this story, a fellow member of Tim’s platoon.
Rat Kiley
Rat Kiley is another member of Tim’s platoon. The story opens with Tim telling the story of how Rat wrote a letter to the sister of Curt Lemon, one of Rat’s buddies who was killed. The sister never writes back and Rat calls her a ‘‘dumb cooze.’’ A second story involving Rat concerns a...
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