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* DudeNotFunny: Azar poking fun at [[spoiler:Kiowa]]'s death, making comments about "eating shit" and the like, although after he sees the horrible state the body is in, he personally apologizes to the rest of the platoon.
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* TearJerker: Several of the stories, particularly "The Man I Killed", "Speaking of Courage", and "The Lives of the Dead".
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* TheWoobie: Normal Bowker after the war. He becomes a ShellShockedVeteran and is simply unable to adjust to normal life, admitting to O'Brien that part of him died in the shit fields. [[spoiler:[[spoiler:He later hangs himself]]]], although O'Brien (the author) admits that that never happened.

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* TheWoobie: Normal Bowker after the war. He becomes a ShellShockedVeteran and is simply unable to adjust to normal life, admitting to O'Brien that part of him died in the shit fields. [[spoiler:[[spoiler:He [[spoiler: He later hangs himself]]]], himself]], although O'Brien (the author) later admits that that never happened.
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* DudeNotFunny: Azar poking fun at [[spoiler:Kiowa]]'s death, making comments about "eating shit" and the like, although after he sees the horrible state the body is in, he personally apologizes to the rest of the platoon.
* NightmareFuel: Some of the descriptions of injuries can get this far.
* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler:Kiowa]]'s death, being drowned in a mixture of mud and shit as multiple other characters dive in to attempt to find or save him themselves.
* TheWoobie: Normal Bowker after the war. He becomes a ShellShockedVeteran and is simply unable to adjust to normal life, admitting to O'Brien that part of him died in the shit fields. [[spoiler:[[spoiler:He later hangs himself]]]], although O'Brien (the author) admits that that never happened.

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