Why does the boy with the black silk handkerchief on his face have no medals? a he had not been in the service long enough before his injury. b he has only just enlisted and is getting ready to go into battle. c the boy has refused the medal because he feels he hasn't earned it. d no medals are given to soldiers who are below the age of twenty.

A. He had not been in the service long enough before his injury.

Explanation:

In Hernerst Hemingway's "in another country" he narrated a boy with a silk handkerchief on his face. He hid a pat of his face because he lost his nose after being in the front line for the first time. He did not get any medal because he hasn't been on the front line long enough to get a medal.

The boy with the black silk handkerchief on his face has no medals because He had not been in the service long enough before his injury.

Explanation:

In Ernest Hemingway's “in another country,” the boy with the black silk handkerchief on his face has this handkerchief because as soon as he was in the front line he got injured and lost his nose, all of these happening before an hour fighting, this made him not suitable for a medal since he hadn't been in service long enough to earn it.

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