Read the excerpt from Dispatches . You came to love your life, to love and respect the mere fact of it, but often you became heedless of it in the way that somnambulists are heedless. Being good meant staying alive, and sometimes that was only a matter of caring enough at any given moment. Based on the excerpt, which best describes a good soldier?

The excerpt says that being a good soldier meant staying alive, which sometimes depended on caring enough in the moment. That suggests a soldier must remain alert and attentive to danger. The best choice is “a soldier who is always vigilant”; the passage does not focus on honor, superstition, or accepting fate.

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