the thing they carried 5

in this part of the book i read from page 32 to 37. One thing is this part of the book is when he talks about how he was bcak in vietnam and what they used to do. His friends Norman Bowker and Henry Dobbins would play checkers every night. It was like a ritual for them he said. He talked about the good things with checkers qabout how u know where you stand no tunnels, or mountains, or jungles or any of that. He also talks about the things that they would talk about in Vietnam. For example his friend Norman Bowker talks about how he wish his father would write him a letter talking about how he wouldn't care if he didnt caome home with any medals or anything like that. He talked about the average age in their platoon to which was nineteen or twenty. They told eachother stories while in Vietnam to keep peace with eachother and keep everything alright. This is what this part of the book is about.