Lieutenant Jimmy Cross's "fictional" girlfriend Martha is what he describes as a beautiful girl who plays volleyball. He always keeps a picture of her in his pocket which keeps him distracted from being in war because he is in love. She only shows up in a few chapters though, but she had a lot of impact on Cross. Martha differs from Mary Anne only because Mary Anne became insane within a few weeks of being in Vietnam. Mary was a beautiful girl but her free spirited mind turned her into something else, by hanging with the Green Berets in their nasty bunker she completely defied what the perception of what a women is through the eyes of servicemen.
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