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Obrien gets drafted
" I remember opening up the letter, scaning the first few lines, felling the blood go thick in my eye , i was to good for this war" (39,Tim O'Brien). -
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The Things They Carried
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O'Brien arrives in Vietnam and joined the Alpha company
"It was my fourth day; I hadent yet developed a sense of humor. I felt a moist sickness rise up in my throat. Isat down next to the pigpen ,closed my eyes, put my head between my knees" (214, O'Brien) -
O'Brien killed a man
"His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth wew gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole" (O'Brien, 118) -
Kurt Lemon was blown into a tree
"He laughed and said something to Rat Kiley. Then he took a perticular half step , moving from the shade to the sun light, and the booby-trapped 105 round blew him into the tree" (79, O'Brien). -
Ted Lavender was shot
' ted lavender was zaped while zipping, he fell like cement just, boom, dead" (16, O'Brien). -
Obrien gets shot for the first time
" The first time, out by Tri Binh, it knocked me against the pagoda wall, and bounced and spun around and ended up on Rat Kileys lap" (180, O'Brien). -
Rat Kiley shot himself in the foot
"When i got back to the Alpha company 26 days later Rat Kiley had been wonded, and shiped of to japan" (181, O'Brien). -
Kiowa sinks in the mud
" He was under the mud, and the water folded in with the war, and their only thought was to find him and dig him out' (155 O'Brien). -
O' Brien get shot the second time
" When i got shot the second time, in the but, along the Song Tra Bong, i almost died of shot" -
Norman Bowker Commits suicide
"Speaking of courage wa Written in !975 at the Suggestion Of Norman Bowker, who three years later hanged himself in the YMCA in his hometown, in central Iowa" (149, O'Brien). -
O'Brien returned to Vietnam with his daughter
"A few months after completing "in the feilds" I returned with my daughter to vietnam where we visited the site of kiowas death" (O'Brien, 173) -
Rat Kiley kills a baby buffalo
"Rat took careful aim and shoot off an ear. He shot it in the hindquarters and in the little hump at its back. He shot it twice in the flanks. It wasn"t to kill; it was to hurt" (O'Brien, 75) -
Mary Anne Bell comes to visit Mark Fossie
"At the helipad that morning, Mark fossie grinned and put his arm around her, he said " Guys this is Mary Anne"" (O'Brien, 89)
