WAR MAY NOT SEEM REAL REAL TO EVERYBODY BECAUSE THE TRUE MEANING OF WAR LIES INSIDE THE EYES OF THE SOLDIERS. "HOW TO TELL A TRUE WAR STORY" BY TIM O'BRIEN SHOWS AN AUTHENTIC VALUE THAT ONLY A TRUE SOLDIER CAN CHERISH AND REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. AN INDIVIDUAL MUST EXPERINCE WAR TO UNDERSTAND IT. TO ... WERE IN THE VIETNAM WAR. HE FELD THAT HIS EXPERIENCE WAS BEYOND DISCRIPTION, BUT HE WROTE THAT LETTER. THAT MAGNIFICENT FEELING OF SHARING WAS INDEED WONDERFUL. THE ONLY WAY THIS STORY WAS TOLD WAS THAT SOMEONE, BOB KILEY, WAS ACTUALLY THERE. WAR IS TERROR. IT'S EVERY SOLDIER'S DREA...

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... effect on me; I loved them. I not only couldn't put them down, but they also left lasting impressions on me in many different ways. The books are The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Things They Carried by Tim O"Brien and Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. I happened to read all three of these books in the last few months, and all of them ... situations were what they went through as well. Just about everything horrible that you can imagine happening to someone happens to Frankie. What's even more intriguing is that the whole story is true and all of those things really did happen...

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... not to blame. These soldiers needlessly blame themselves and carry guilt. Some times these situations occur before they even enter the war, such as in Tim O"Brien's short story, "On the Rainy River". The story starts out with O"Brien saying, "... To go into it, I've always thought, would only cause embarrassment for all of us, [...] which is the natural response to a confession ... " (39). Tim O"Brien was just a young man when he was given the draft notice. He naturally tried to run away from this problem, which he rightfully did since he was ... go and fight in the Vietnam war. Althoug...

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... 's and father's side of the family was wealthy and affluent Irish Catholics who lived in Boston. P.J. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's grandfather, was a liquor trader and a banker, and his other grandfather, John. E. Fitzgerald was a renowned politician. He graduated Harvard University in 1940, and immediately afterwards, he joined the U.S. Navy where he was assigned to command a patrol torpedo boat in the South of Pacific ... ...

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... also seen as a political turning point. It was the year President Johnson signed the civil rights act and the year that Richard M. Nixon came back from his loss to John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1960, beating Hubert Humphrey in one of the closest elections in American History. The stirrings of a possible war with Vietnam started began in 1962, when president JFK ordered ... ...

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... AM as the time of impact. It landed at an estimated speed of 575 miles per hour and left a crater about 35 metres deep. There were no survivors. Both 110-story towers of the World Trade Center collapsed along with several neighboring buildings, and part of the Pentagon was destroyed by fire. Casualties were in the thousands: 265 on the planes ... in the region. Total Americans wounded is said to 2,279. Total Americans dead 419. Total British Wounded 2,274. Total British dead 53. As for all other coalition forces, there were 39 wounded, and 43 fatalities. Iraqi dead are uncertain, though...

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... shaped our country in different ways. They each had very separate lives, yet they always seemed to cross each other's paths. They both had several similarities and many differences. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brooklyn, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917 to a very wealthy family. His father was a well-off businessman and ambassador. His father taught him self-confidence and passion ... ...

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... teaching a rain dance to Rat Kiley and Dave Jensen, the three of them leaping around barefoot while a bunch of villagers looked on with a mixture of fascination and giggly horror- (O'Brien, 39). These men looked to each other for emotional support and reassurance since none was coming from the homefront. The men of Alpha Company trusted each other with their lives. Dave ... about the war and is even trying to forget it happened. Norman Bowker turns to the Narrator to help him express his feelings. What you should do, Tim, is write a story about a guy who feels like he got zapped over in...

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... teaching a rain dance to Rat Kiley and Dave Jensen, the three of them leaping around barefoot while a bunch of villagers looked on with a mixture of fascination and giggly horror- (O'Brien, 39). These men looked to each other for emotional support and reassurance since none was coming from the homefront. The men of Alpha Company trusted each other with their lives. Dave ... about the war and is even trying to forget it happened. Norman Bowker turns to the Narrator to help him express his feelings. What you should do, Tim, is write a story about a guy who feels like he got zapped over in...

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... many millions of others ("War in Vietnam-). There were 587 U.S. prisoners of war and a current unofficial estimate puts the number of personnel still unaccounted for in the neighborhood of 2500 (Scott). The Vietnam War was one of the best wars lost. Maybe the war will teach the U.S. to never rely on their moral rectitude and look to see who they have ... ...

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... quite convincing.The scene where Willard decides to carry out his mission is classic(with him rising out of the water,and using a machete to terminate Kurtz,with "extreme prejudice").Scott Glenn has a very brief cameo.A masterpiece....

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... jobs were now being offered more to all Americans. Reports by CPS that the incidence of poverty fell from 22.2 percent in 1960 to 13.5 percent in 1988, a decline of 39 percent (Marmor, Marshaw, Harvey 236-37). The numbers had went down since 1964. Everyone had their facts and opinions about the decrease in poverty. War on Poverty branched from its ... ...

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... asserted Hiss's innocence. Nixon was then elected to the United States Senate where two years later Dwight Eisenhower selected him as his Presidential running mate in 1952. Nixon was only 39 years old at the time. He spent eight years as Vice President taking on major duties for the Eisenhower administration. Nixon unsuccessfully tried to run for the Presidency against John ... ...

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... featured surprise attacks on French installations and military posts all over the country, so as to disperse enemy forces and to wear down public support for France in the war. 39. By 1953, the United States was paying almost 80% of French military expenditures for the war. The results, from Washington's point of view were disappointing. The Vietminh situation was improving ... ...

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... more than twenty years [he's] had to live with it, feeling the shame," and his failure to follow his heart will be with him for the remainder of his life (39). Therefore, based on Tim's reasons, his choice to serve in the Vietnam War is conclusively unsuitable, immoral, and cowardly. ...

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... their back on him. "It never makes any sense to us how the government can keep asking money for weapons and leave us lying in our own filth," Kovic says (39). Kovic was forced on an emotional rollercoaster as he questioned his worth. Kovic is transformed from a patriotic boy, full of pride because of his July 4th birthday, to a bitter marine ... ...

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... at Andrews Air Force Base. There were 8 jurors, each were internationally recognized artists and designers. They narrowed the original 1,421 designs down to 232 and then narrowed down again to 39. The jury finally selected Entry Number 1,026 because it clearly met the spirit and requirements of the design. The designer of Entry Number 1,026 was Maya Ying Lin (The Vietnam ... ...

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... 400,000 by the end of 1966, nearly 2 million during the following year. When the end of 1967 approached the American public support for the war had dropped to only 39%. The president's performance was not being approved by the American public. Johnson made it clear of his decision to de-escalate the war and withdraw from the presidential race in ... ...

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... car to me for good now, it was no use" (Erdrich p.270). When Henry gives the red convertible to Lyman, it symbolizes Henry's death. This story shows a unique perspective on rites of passage (fanshawec p.1). Lyman is undergoing the process of maturation and realizing that he lives in a discriminative world. Lyman ... of Henry dying because the author states that he is on the ground with his arms open wide like a person unconscious. The willow tree in the story also has symbolic meaning. The author writes, "The branches bent down all around me (Lyman) like a tent or a stable. Lyman descri...

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... Salman Rushdie) He tells his audience, in The Things They Carried, a compilation of stories in order to help others understand his whole story about Vietnam. All that O'Brien believes and feels about what happened while he was in Vietnam is what he is attempting to illustrate. ... importance. However, the characteristics and the descriptions given to Mary Anne's character should be of high priority to the reader. O'Brien's story shaped world is created through the details that evoke emotions rather than the details that evoke reliability. Rat's storytelling technique is a perfect example...

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Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War film, "Apocalypse Now," tells a vivid, gruesome, realistic, and terrifying story of one of America's worst battles just after it ended in 1975. The film uses beautiful cinematography along with superb ... all while paying cheap Philippine labor cost. Coppola created this film with "ambitious effort to show Vietnam as America's Heart of Darkness, with Joseph Conrad's story providing the narrative skeleton" "(Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 1-1) and many themes, meanings, and entire scenes from the movie do in fact come directly from Conrad's ... book...

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... wants me to attain. An author named Tim O"Brien wrote about some of the events that took place in the Vietnam War. In his short story, "The Things They Carried," O"Brien wrote a sort of autofiction about some of his accounts in the war. This is referred to as an autofiction because ... attempt to become the "authorial readers" that we talked about earlier in order to better understand his world and the influential factors that caused him to write this story. First of all, we know that he was a sergeant in the army after he was drafted into the Vietnam War while in his twenties. While in ...

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... Throughout history, every war has great stories that need to be heard. For the Vietnam War those great stories are captured in Tim O"Brien's story "The things they carried". Tim O"Brien was one of the most influential and talented writers of his time, and in his stories he unveils ... of his novels "In the Lake of the Woods" he puts the frightening descriptions of what it is like to be lost in the wilderness (Retelling the Story: O"Brien's Use of Repetition for Effect). The sense of panic when you are alone in an unknown place is described in a way that makes the reader ... feel like ...

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... yet interesting for me to read. I also choose it because it was actually written by someone who was in the war. Philip Caputo starts his story from his indecision of what to do with his life after high school. Once he decided to join the marine corps he tells of his college career ... to when his tour of duty came to a close after the dismissal of his murder trial, and he finally got to go home. Caputo told his story from a point of view that no media source could have covered during that time. Caputo was actually there, in the battlefield, waiting for their attacks and ... drills agai...

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... to the great abundance of evil which was celebrated throughout the war. The novel The Things they Carried, the movie "Platoon," as well as an actual story from a Vietnam Veteran each, in their own ways, allude to the powerful ability that the Vietnam war possessed to change a soldier's thoughts on life. " ... suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story ever seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger was...

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