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"The draft notice arrived on June 17, 1968" (O'Brien 39).
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"The field was boiling. Opening up the field of waste, centuries worth, and the smell came bubbling out of the earth" (O'Brien 142).
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"I was brand-new to the war. It was my fourth day; I hadn't yet developed a sense of humor" (O'Brien 214).
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"I glanced behind me and watched Lemon step from the shade into bright sunlight. His face was suddenly brown and shining. A handsome kid, really. Sharp gray eyes, lean narrow waisted, and when he died it was almost beautiful, the way the sunlight came around him and lifted him up and sucked him high into a tree full of moss and vines and white blossoms" (O'Brien 67).
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"Azar strapped a puppy to a Claymore antipersonnel mine and squeezed the firing device"(O'Brien 35).
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Zapped while Zipping" (O'Brien )
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"I guess the higher-ups decided I'd been shot enough. At the end of December, when I was released from the 91st Evac Hospital, they transferred me over to Headquarters Company -- S-4, the battalion supply section" (O'Brien 182).
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"The first time, out by Tri Binh, it knocked me against the pagoda wall, and i bounced adn spun around and ended up on Rat Kiley's lap" (O'Brien 181).
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O'Brien returns to Vietnam with his daughter
