The things they carried: Liz Kindler, Melanie Roman, & Sam Ott

  • mary anne bell visits mark fossie

    "So with this particular story Rat never backed down, he claimed to have witnessed the insident with his own eyes." (O'brien 86)
  • O'brien gets draft notice

    O'brien gets draft notice
    " THe draft notice arrived on June,17 1968" (O'brien.) (39)
  • O'brien in vietnam

    O'brien in vietnam
    "I was brand new to the war." "it was Feburary now." (O'brien) (214/215)
  • Curt lemon has the dentist pull a tooth

    "no way count me out. nobody messes with these teeth" (O'brien 83)
  • Azar blows up Ted Lavenders puppy

    " Or ted lavender adopting an orphan puppy-feeding it from a plastic spoon and carrying it in his rucksack until the day Azar strapped it to a claymore antipersonal mine and sqeezed the firing device" (o'brien) (36)
  • Curt lemon gets blown into a tree

    Curt lemon gets blown into a tree
    "When we crossed the river and marched west into the mountains the third day curt lemon stepped into a booby trapped 105 round. He was playiong catch with Rat Kiley." (O'brien 74)
  • Rat kiley kills a baby buffalo

    Rat kiley kills a baby buffalo
    "Rat shrugged.he stepped back and shot it through the right front knee." (O'brien 78)
  • Ted Lavender gets killed

    " On april 16, when lee strunk drew the number 17, he laughed and mutered something and went down quickly." (O'brien) (10)
  • Kiowa dies

    "he pulled hard but kiowa was gone then all of a sudden he felt himself going too" (O'brien 143)
  • Tim O'brien gets shot for the first time

    "when i got back to alpha company twenty six days later in mid-december, " (O'brien) (181)
  • Rat kiley shot himself in the foot

    "He talked about a few of the guys who were gone now, Curt lemon and Kiowa and ted lavender, " (O'brien 223)
  • O'brien gets shot for the second time

    "At the end of December when i got released." ( O'brien 182)
  • Norman Bowker commits suicide

    "In august of 1978 his mother sent me a brief note about what had happened. " (O'brien 154)
  • O'brien kills a man

  • O'brien brings daughter to vietnam

    "10 years later i brought my daughter to vietnam"