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Colonel Wheeler
A short, stocky twenty-nine-year-old who is ex-enlisted. He worked his way through the ranks to become a first lieutenant. He was a husband and a father whom Caputo liked a lot for “his air of quiet maturity.” A few hours after he and Caputo split a beer, a helicopter returns his body. Reasoner has been shot across the belly by a machine gun. During a patrol, Reasoner’s company ran into a couple of “enemy machine-gun nests.” He charged one of the guns single-handedly, “knocking it out of action.” He then fired his carbine at the second gun and ran to pick up one of his wounded. He was killed in the process. He is posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and a camp and a ship are both named after him.
Lieutenant Frank Reasoner Quotes in A Rumor of War
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Chapter Twelve
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That night, I was given command of a new platoon. They stood in formation in the rain, three ranks deep. I stood front and center, facing them. Devlin, Lockhart, and Bryce were in the first rank, Bryce standing on his one good leg, next to him the faceless Devlin, and then Lockhart with his bruised eye sockets bulging. Sullivan was there, too, and Reasoner and all the others, all of them except me, the officer in charge of the dead. I was the only one alive and whole, and when I commanded […] they faced right, slung their rifles, and began to march. They marched along, my platoon of crippled corpses, hopping along on the stumps of their legs, swinging the stumps of their arms, keeping perfect time while I counted cadence. I was proud of them, disciplined soldiers to and beyond the end. They stayed in step even in death.
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Lieutenant Frank Reasoner Quotes in A Rumor of War
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Chapter Twelve
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That night, I was given command of a new platoon. They stood in formation in the rain, three ranks deep. I stood front and center, facing them. Devlin, Lockhart, and Bryce were in the first rank, Bryce standing on his one good leg, next to him the faceless Devlin, and then Lockhart with his bruised eye sockets bulging. Sullivan was there, too, and Reasoner and all the others, all of them except me, the officer in charge of the dead. I was the only one alive and whole, and when I commanded […] they faced right, slung their rifles, and began to march. They marched along, my platoon of crippled corpses, hopping along on the stumps of their legs, swinging the stumps of their arms, keeping perfect time while I counted cadence. I was proud of them, disciplined soldiers to and beyond the end. They stayed in step even in death.
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