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The Things They Carried
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O'Brien gets draft notice
"The draft notice arrived on June 17, 1968" (O'Brien 39). -
Mary Ann Bell visits Mark Fossie
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Kiowa sinks in feild of waste
"The field was boiling. Opening up the field of waste, centuries worth, and the smell came bubbling out of the earth" (O'Brien 142). -
O'Brien in Vietnam.
"I was brand-new to the war. It was my fourth day; I hadn't yet developed a sense of humor" (O'Brien 214). -
Curt Lemon gets blown into a tree.
"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). -
Rat Kiely kills a baby buffalo.
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Azar blows up puppy
"Azar strapped a puppy to a Claymore antipersonnel mine and squeezed the firing device"(O'Brien 35). -
Ted Lavender gets killed
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O'Brien gest shot a second time
"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). -
O'Brien gets shot a first time
"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). -
Rat Kiely shoots himself in the foot.
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Norman Bowker commits suicide.
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O'Brien returns to Vietnam
O'Brien returns to Vietnam with his daughter
