the things they carried- 13

in this part of the book i read from prage 73 to 78. In this part of the book they talk about when the guys cant cope with vietnam and what happens. They cant take it they lose it. He said he hears guys thinking they're in the abr talking about how they drinking martinis and making toasts and everything. They hear a vietnamese opera or "gook opera" and they just lose it. They dont know where they are, why they are there for, and what they're doing. That actually used to happen in real vietnam the men used to go crazy like that because they couldn't take it anymore. Some guys did make it though. They didnt lose it and they went home perfectly fine.