I think that Charley does have soldiers heart at the end of the novel. I say this because he never ran away from all the gruesomeness, and all the killing that he had seen. He stayed there until he was hit himself repeatedly. “The army had taught him to like coffee, live on coffee and he still drank it even though it knotted his guts.(pg.99)” This helps the reason why he has a soldiers heart because even the little things like this drinking coffee in the military he still remembers and he embraces it. One example is my dad, he served in the Air-force 5-7 years and he had never been in a firefight. He has never killed anyone, but I know he has a soldiers heart because to this very day he still rolls his clothes up like a burrito when he puts
