Lt. Carroll
When reading Walter Dean Myers’ Fallen Angels you will meet a character by the name of Lieutenant Carroll. The highly respected platoon leader was a caring, fearless, and sympathetic man. When he was drafted and left Kansas for war, he left behind his wife Lois who was pregnant with their child and whom he’d planned to open a bookstore with. As well as his mother Karen and his father who he had always wanted to respect him. During his time serving in the Vietnam War, he went through quite a bit and sacrificed the things he loved, as did everyone yet regardless of his situation he always tried to stay true to who he was. In the beginning of his tour in Vietnam, Lt. Carroll was an innocent, holy person. Sometime along the course of his military career though, he became slightly corrupted. This change was prompted most significantly by an event that happened involving some fellow soldiers that he couldn’t save. Once a while back, while trying to clear the road, he seen some soldiers trapped in a ditch on the other side of the road and after realizing that they could see them but not get to them and noticing that it was beginning to get dark out, Carroll did what he thought was right. The Lt. stormed across the road to get them and once his team realized what …show more content…
Carroll did that made him so great like the fact that he was involved with other soldiers life outside of the war. For instance, while in the midst of war Perry realized that his brother Kenny’s birthday was coming up and wanted to send him something more than money. Perry asked Lt. Carroll if he thought he could get a knife through the mail for Kenny, that’s when Carroll said he had something else. He gave Perry a black silk jacket with a green map of Vietnam on the back. (pg 105-106) Throughout Carroll’s time in the war he remained devoted to making sure everyone in his platoon was okay and he always tried to do anything he could to help with anything they