Choose the best answer to the questions. (Para. 2) My father had been allowed to keep his old battle jacket, and when, as a child, I asked him to tell me about his adventures during the Second World War, he would always take the jacket out of the trunk in the loft, and show me the bullet hole. “Five centimetres to the right ...” he said, but was too tactful to finish the sentence, ... and it would have gone straight through his heart, a mortal wound. He said he kept the jacket to remind him how he had nearly died. Why did the writer’s father keep his old battle jacket?
A.
To show how dangerous his role in D-Day had been.
B.
To demonstrate his loyalty to his old regiment.
C.
To explain that he might have died, and there would have been no family.
D.
To remind himself that he’d been very lucky.