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A Yankee in the Trenches · Character

Colonel Flowers

A colonel commanding a brigade or battalion.

minor

First appearance: vi hiking to vimy ridge

Colonel Flowers shows up with force in On the Go. The page is where that presence becomes real.

The dignified and just colonel who presides over orders, seeking mitigating circumstances but passing severe sentences.
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  • Other

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  • Diverse trench community
  • Protagonist

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

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  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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