The Barracks Thief

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The Barracks Thief (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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Lewis, a young army recruit from Lawton, Kentucky, who is training as part of the Eighty-second Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. He is one of three new soldiers chosen to guard an ammunition dump in a woods outside the fort on the Fourth of July. the soldiers are instructed by the duty officer to shoot any nonmilitary personnel who come near the dump. When the local sheriff and a civilian try to convince them to leave the dump because they are in danger from a nearby forest fire, the three soldiers, led by Lewis, dutifully chase them off at gunpoint. the...

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• Tobias Wolff (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Tobias Wolff (Short Fiction)