Outline

The Things that Carried Him

Part One: Indiana, The End

  • we are introduced to Don Collins
  • detail on Collins’ background
  • he makes his first cut in the grass
  • Collins digs
  • Various funeral goers come in
  • the casket travels
  • civilian motorcycles join
  • Soldiers from Fort Knox
  • Reverend prays
  • Ritual of firing shots
  • Bugler plays
  • details of bugle training
  • quote from Leatherbee
  • quote from Sergeant Chris Bastille
  • Soldiers folded the flag
  • detail on flag folding
  • Brigadier General Belinda Pinckney joins
  • Pinckney tells an anecdote about Missie
  • quote from Pinckney
  • service ends