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Book Review of The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried
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Wow! I've read stories about Viet Nam before. My brother was there and I wanted to learn about what they went through. But this book.... more than any other book... let me feel what they felt, suffer through the experiences that became a part of who they became, feel the burden of the physical and mental things they had to carry. I felt like I was there with him, as his buddy sunk into the stinking mud and he couldn't pull him out. If you want to come as close as possible to understanding those things which a soldier could never talk about, after he came home...... this is the book for you. All I can say is....wow!!!