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The Things They Carried Key Events Timeline (1. Starts with talking…

- - - - 4. Talks about what Jimmy Cross carried
        
        "Jimmy Cross carried a compass, maps, code books, binoculars, and a .45-caliber pistol that weighed 2.9 pounds fully loaded. He carried a strobe light and the responsibility forthe lives of his men."
        
        5. Ted Lavender is killed
        
        "There was no twitching or flopping. Kiowa, who saw it happen, said it was like watching a rock fall, or a big sandbag or something just boom, then down—not like the movies where the dead guy rolls around and does fancy spins and goes ass over teakettle—not like that, Kiowa said, the poor bastard just flat-fuck fell. Boom. Down. Nothing else."
        
        "Lieutenant Cross felt the pain. He blamed himself."
        
        6.Jimmy Cross goes back to thinking about Martha to avoid the guilt of Ted Lavenders death.
        
        Lieutenant Cross kept to himself. He pictured Marthas smooth young face, thinking he loved her more than anything, more than his men, and now Ted Lavender was dead because he loved her so much and could not stop thinking about her."
        
        7. "Afterward they burned Than Khe."
        
        8. Kiowa keeps going on about Ted Lavenders death...makes it hard for Jimmy Cross to avoid it.
        
        "They marched until dusk, then dug their holes, and that night Kiowa kept explaining how you had to be there, how fast it was, how the poor guy just dropped like so much concrete. Boom-down, he said. Like cement."
        
        9. "The Text talks about how the guys are in awe of the machines and guns they carry"
        
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      - "To carry something was to hump it, as when Lieutenant Jimmy Cross humped his love for Martha up the hills and through the swamps"