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Why does the author use Ted Lavender as a recurring motif in "The Things They Carried"?

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Ted should have died but missed the airplane to Vietnam. Ted's death was never far from the soldiers' minds. Ted was shot by his fellow soldiers. Ted was the only one of the soldiers to die a natural death.
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Ted's death was never far from the soldiers minds.

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