Jimmy Cross is another character I have no real liking or hatred towards, but in a different way then Tim O'Brien. I feel as if Jimmy is so focused on life back home, he can't focus on the issues at hand, and then blames himself for the death of his men, but doesn't seem to learn anything.
Jimmy is leading the troops into the shit fields to find Kiowa's body, and Jimmy is thinking that he'll write a letter to Kiowa's father about how admirable a person his son was, and how he was a person that any parent would be proud of.
Azar just exacerbates my dislike for him by being incredibly detached and heartless about the situation, making jokes about Kiowa "eating shit" (ha.) and other ignorant comments, which Norman tells him to stop with.
Jimmy is still thinking about how guilty he feels about Kiowa' death, and how he is going to include that in the letter to Kiowa's father.
They unearth Kiowa's body from the shit field, and clean it off so it can be sent to the military base. It seems as a pride thing, to rescue the body, but I wouldn't want my body to rot under the defecation of countless nameless people, so I find that completely understandable.
The chapter ends with Jimmy contemplating not writing the letter, and instead staying in his safe world of golf, where you only lose the ball, not lives.
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