Which sentences in this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country" show that medals and awards in war don't always bring soldiers glory and acceptance?

A) The boys at first were very polite about my medals and asked me what I had done to get them.

B) I showed them the papers which were written in very beautiful language of full of fratellanza and abnegazione but which really said with the adjectives removed that I had been given the medals because I was an American.

C) after that their manner change a little toward me although I was their friend against Outsiders

D) I was afraid but I was never really one of them after they had read the citation because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals.

E) I had been wounded it was true but we all knew being wounded after all was really an accident.

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Michael Humphrey

26 September, 08:06

Which sentences in this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country" show that medals and awards in war don't always bring soldiers glory and acceptance?

A) The boys at first were very polite about my medals and asked me what I had done to get them.

B) I showed them the papers which were written in very beautiful language of full of fratellanza and abnegazione but which really said with the adjectives removed that I had been given the medals because I was an American.

C) after that their manner change a little toward me although I was their friend against Outsiders

D) I was afraid but I was never really one of them after they had read the citation because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals.

E) I had been wounded it was true but we all knew being wounded after all was really an accident.

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Nataly Graves · Answer 1

D. I was afraid but I was never really one of them after they had read the citation because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals.