the things they carried -12

in this part of the book i read from page 68 to 73. In these few pages he talks about the moral of war stories and his views on them. There is no uplifting and good feeling after a war story is told. In most cases of war stories and cannot be believed as a true thing that actually happened. When you think back to the day of the story that your telling it almost seems like it was and or is kind of jumbled in your head. The picture of everything or anything that happened is scary almost unbelievable and just saddening. He also had talked about it was almost beautiful as when his friend Curt Lemon died he stepped on the detonator heard the click looked at all of them smiled and then it was all over. The beautiful part was how the sunlight came around his body and it looked like it took him up into the air and in the trees into the white blossoms of the whole green mossy trees.

the things they carried- 11

 In this part of the book i read from page 65 to 68. These pages were mostle about Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk. They had both signed a paper saying that if either of them got injured or "wheelchair bound" they would kill the other. One day on patrol Strunk stepped on a rigged mortar and his leg got blown off. He begged Jensen not to kill him. He didn't. Somewhere in the jungle over a village called chu in his helicopter he was in Strunk died. Then one of his good friends Rat wrote a letter to his sister about how much of a great man he was. She didnt even respond which was so messed up. Something like that a brother of yours dieing in war and one of his friends writes a letter to you and you don't write back? Thats really messed up.