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"So with this particular story Rat never backed down, he claimed to have witnessed the insident with his own eyes." (O'brien 86)
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" THe draft notice arrived on June,17 1968" (O'brien.) (39)
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"I was brand new to the war." "it was Feburary now." (O'brien) (214/215)
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"no way count me out. nobody messes with these teeth" (O'brien 83)
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" 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)
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"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)
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"Rat shrugged.he stepped back and shot it through the right front knee." (O'brien 78)
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" On april 16, when lee strunk drew the number 17, he laughed and mutered something and went down quickly." (O'brien) (10)
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"he pulled hard but kiowa was gone then all of a sudden he felt himself going too" (O'brien 143)
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"when i got back to alpha company twenty six days later in mid-december, " (O'brien) (181)
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"He talked about a few of the guys who were gone now, Curt lemon and Kiowa and ted lavender, " (O'brien 223)
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"At the end of December when i got released." ( O'brien 182)
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"In august of 1978 his mother sent me a brief note about what had happened. " (O'brien 154)
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"10 years later i brought my daughter to vietnam"
