James Hannigan was a squad medic whom Thurman admits killing after a wartime wound prevented his escape.
Paul Thurman remembers Corporal James Hannigan as his squad’s medic: young, humorous, and serious when necessary. Near Kashmar, Hannigan suffered a shrapnel wound Thurman describes as potentially survivable. He could not walk, however, and enemy fire prevented an airlift.
Thurman admits killing him rather than leaving him to be captured.
Thurman remembers Hannigan as young; no further physical description is established.
He is the wounded medic whose killing Thurman recounts from his military past.