All 7 Uses of
valor
in
The Things They Carried
- It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor.†
Chpt 1
- "How's it being married?" he might ask, and he'd nod at whatever she answered with, and he would not say a word about how he'd almost won the Silver Star for valor.†
Chpt 15
- He would've explained to his father that none of these decorations was for uncommon valor.†
Chpt 15 *
- They were for common valor.†
Chpt 15
- And later that night I could've won the Silver Star for valor.†
Chpt 15
- A good war story, he thought, but it was not a war for war stories, nor for talk of valor, and nobody in town wanted to know about the terrible stink.†
Chpt 15
- He did not freeze up or lose the Silver Star for valor.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(valor) exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger -- especially in battle