Which sentences in this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country" show that medals and awards in war don’t always bring soldiers glory and acceptance?

A.) The boys at first were very polite about my medals and asked me what I had done to get them. B.) I showed them the papers, which were written in very beautiful language and full of fratellanza and abnegazione , but which really said, with the adjectives removed, that I had been given the medals because I was an American. C.) After that their manner changed a little toward me, although I was their friend against outsiders. D.) I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals. E.) I had been wounded, it was true; but we all knew that being wounded, after all, was really an accident

E) because it shows that he got an medal for being wounded in war and he basically said that it was just a wound and he got a medal for it. Just by the tone of the story i dont think he was too happy with getting a medal for being hurt

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Answer: C) After that their manner changed a little toward me, although I was their friend against outsiders, and D) I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals.

Explanation: In the given excerpt we can see the description of the reactions of some soldiers to another soldier who has received a medal for having been hurt at war. The sentences that show that medals and awards in war don’t always bring soldiers glory and acceptance are the corresponding to options C and D, because they show how the other soldiers aren't really their friends because of the reason why he was given a medal.