In this excerpt from ernest hemingway's "in another country," which sentence shows the low self-esteem of the soldiers and their belief that being a soldier has nothing to do with bravery?

The excerpt that shows the low self-esteem of the soldiers and their belief that being a soldier has nothing to do with bravery from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country," is the sentence “ The three with the medals were like hunting-hawks; and I was not a hawk, although I might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted; they, the three, knew better and so we drifted apart.”

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"The three with the medals were like hunting hawks; and I was not a hawk, although I might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted; they. the three, knew better and so we drifted apart."

it may be touching on the issue of over sexualizing all women