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Lance Corporal Crowe
A marine who is “a full-blooded Comanche from Oklahoma.” Caputo also mentions that Lonehill is “a crack shot,” meaning that he is very good at shooting his intended target. Lonehill stands at six-feet-two and has such a mean stare that it “[makes] you choose your words carefully when you [speak] to him.”
Lonehill Quotes in A Rumor of War
The A Rumor of War quotes below are all either spoken by Lonehill or refer to Lonehill. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Eighteen
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There was murder in my heart and, in some way, through tone of voice, a gesture, or a stress on kill rather than capture, I had transmitted my inner violence to the men. They saw in my overly aggressive manner a sanction to vent their own brutal impulses. I lay there remembering the euphoria we had felt afterward, the way we had laughed, and then the sudden awakening to guilt. And yet, I could not conceive of the fact as one of premeditated murder. It had not been committed in a vacuum. It was a direct result of the war. The thing we had done was a result of what the war had done to us.
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Lonehill Quotes in A Rumor of War
The A Rumor of War quotes below are all either spoken by Lonehill or refer to Lonehill. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Eighteen
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There was murder in my heart and, in some way, through tone of voice, a gesture, or a stress on kill rather than capture, I had transmitted my inner violence to the men. They saw in my overly aggressive manner a sanction to vent their own brutal impulses. I lay there remembering the euphoria we had felt afterward, the way we had laughed, and then the sudden awakening to guilt. And yet, I could not conceive of the fact as one of premeditated murder. It had not been committed in a vacuum. It was a direct result of the war. The thing we had done was a result of what the war had done to us.
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