The title of the novel Fallen Angels immediately emphasizes the theme of youth and innocence. As Lieutenant Carrol] explains in Chapter 4, all soldiers are "angel warriors," because the soldiers are still young boys and still as innocent as angels. In calling the novel Fallen Angels, Myers implies that the soldiers' youth and innocence are more important than any of their other aspects, such as their religion, ethnicity, class, or race. The novel is first and foremost a tale of the lost innocence of a squad of soldiers in the Vietnam War. Richie is only seventeen when he enters Vietnam, and Peewee and the other members of the squad are also teenagers—Peewee is unable even to grow a mustache. His three life goals, immaturely, are to drink wine from a corked bottle, to smoke a cigar, and to make love to a foreign woman. Richie and Lobel are both virgins, and they fantasize endlessly about their first sexual experiencesThough the soldiers enter the war as naive youths, the war quickly......

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Title: Fallen Angels
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