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Mary Anne Bell vists Mark Fossie
"Mary Anne Bell and Mark Fossie had been sweethearrts since grammar school since the 6th grade they had known for a fact that someday they would be married...On the first night they had set up house in one of the bunkers along the perimeter, near the special forces hootch, and over the next two weeks they stuck together like a pair of highschool steadies."(O'Brien 90). -
Tom O'Brien gets drafted
"You can't fix your mistakes once people are dead, you can't make them undead" (O'Brien 39). -
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Enters Vietnam
Tim O'Brien arrives in Vietnam (O'Brien 221). -
Kurt Lemon has the dentist pull a tooth
"Late that night he crept down to the dental tent. He switched on a flashlight woke up the young capitan .... The dentist couldnt find any problem ... So the man finaly shurgged and shot novcian and yanked out a perfectly good tooth" (O'Brien 84). -
Curt Lemon gets blown into a tree
"A handsome kid, really. Sharp grey eyes, lean and narrow-waisted, and when he died it was almost beautiful, the way the sun light came around him and lifted him up..."(67) -
Rat Kiley kills a baby buffalo
"Nothing moved excpet the eyes, which were enormous, the pupils were shiny black and dumb."(76) -
Ted Lavender gets "zapped while zipping"
"Ted Lavender popped a trangulizer and went off to pee" (O'Brien 11) -
Azar blows Lavenders puppy
"Ted Lavendetr addopted a puppy. Feeding it from a spoon adn keeping it in is knap sack. Untill Azar got ahold of the puppy and straped it to a claymore adn pulled the trigger" (O'Brien 35) -
Kiowa sinks in field of waste
"A stupid mistake, thats all it was, a mistake but it had killed Kiowa" (O'Brien 161) -
O'Brien Kills a man
"His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star shaped whole, his eyebrows were thin and arched like a womans, his nose was undamaged there was a slight tear at the lobe of one ear.."(O'Brien 118). -
O'Briens first time getting shot
"I bounced adn spun around and ended up on Rta Kiley lap. A lucky thing, becaseu Rat was the medic" (O'Brien 180). -
O'Brien shot for second time
"I'd feel a swell of anger come on I'd squirm around cussing half nuts with pain and pretty soon I'd start remembering how Bobby Jorgenson had almost killed me."(183) -
Rat Kiley shoots himself in the foot
"With Rat Kiley, though, it was different. Too many body bags, maybe. Too much gore. At first Rat just sank inside himself, not saying a word...5 or 6 days later it flipped the other way he couldn't stop talking wacky talk too."(209) -
Norman Bowker commits suicide
"Speaking of courage was written in 1975 at the suggestion that Norman Bowker who three years later hung himself in the locker room of the YMCA in his home town in central Iowa."(O'Brien 149). -
Tim O'Brien takes daughter to Vietnam
"I stood with my arms folded, feeling teh grip of sentiment and time. Amazing, I thought. 20 years." (O'Brein 173).
