Please help me 5. What is unique about the characters in line 8 of Whitman's poem?

6. What is Whitman's message about America in this poem? Support you answer with words and phrases from the poem.

As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. none of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins sam and eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. during the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead.

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