The things they carried

Category: Books,Citations  |  September 10, 2011, 10:16 pm

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

He said he’d done his best. He’d tried to be a decent medic. Win some and lose some, he said, but he’d tried hard. Briefly then, rambling a little, he talked about a few of the guys who were gone now, Curt Lemon and Kiowa and Ted Lavender, and how crazy it was that people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead.

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