Who is David from Fall on Your Knees: A Novel and what is their importance? Fall_on_Your_Knees English & Literature David | Fall on Your Knees: A Novel

David is a nineteen-year-old soldier preparing to leave for the war front. He meets Kathleen Piper in New York and they begin dating. When he tells her he does not want to die in the war "never knowing love," she has sex with him. He proposes marriage to her in a letter after he is deployed to France.