The things they carried

 This book is about a Vietnam veteran who writes stories about him and his friend and about what happened when he was in the war and all that was going on. im on page 12 right now and so far mostly what ive found out is his friends names, the supplies that they carried and the girl Martha who he is in love with so much. In the story so far he talks about how he always forgets about the war and thinks about her and he blanks out and dazes sometimes in the middle of things. Like for example in one part of the story so far he went into a tunnel to look for his friend lee strunk but when he goes into the tunnel he blanks out and thinks about walking on the jersey shore with Martha. Also he always talks about his friend Ted Lavender who had got shot earlier. He talks about how he was a bigger man than everyone and he carried a bigger gun which was the m60 instead of the standard issue m16. He carried extra ammunition, extra food, and 6 to 7 ounces of dope. When he was shot right in the head all of the men put him in his poncho and they sat there by his side waiting for the chopper to come pick him up while smoking his dope. The man that went into the tunnel that was Lee Strunk made it out alive of the tunnel and all of the men laughed. One of them said "Right out of the grave fuckin' zombie". So far this is how far i got and this is what the story is about