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. ... WAR IS MYSTERY BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY GETS TO EXPERINCE IT AND NOT STORIES GET TO BE TOLD. ... THE ONLY WAY THIS STORY WAS TOLD WAS THAT SOMEONE, BOB KILEY, WAS ACTUALLY THERE. ... AFTER THE BATTLE COMES TO AN END, YOU WONDER HOW MANLY YOU BAHAVE AND FINALLY YOU EARN THE PEACE YOU ARE LONGING FOR. ...

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He tells us very few stories of his time there, and most of them are of times that were pleasant, but most just very ambiguous. ... So I think this story really goes in the internal conflict that maybe all war vets share. I think this story has an interesting way of showing the character's emotions as well, and how they are forced to deal with them, and process the situations they are put into. ... But it's not a mannered simplicity, the kind that after a while devolves into self-parody; it's the oh-so-powerful simplicity of the true" [ CITATION Joh10 l 1033 ]. And I think...

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Something like the story this atrocity needs to be told and by design it is the Medias job to inform the public. ... If the ratings are good when you report on how well the war effort is going then you probably aren't going to go out of your way to tell the American people that we are over in Vietnam killing innocent people. ... While most Americans were lead to believe that they were being shown the true horrors of war, what they were really seeing was a very watered down version of the real story. Neither the media nor the government really wanted the true horrors of war to be shown...

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The narrator of the story, Tim O'Brien, repeatedly recounts memories of the war, each with an added detail or an object that carried a significant amount of weight that makes the story seem more factual than what it seems. ... The objects they carried were true and false, imaginary and existing, and uncertain and certain. ... The power of salvation from stories is derived from forgiveness, and to tell a story of someone that is to employ good feelings and thoughts of them. ... O' Brien grabs hold of the reader, raising them up with his powerful hand and tells his stories of the thing...

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In this chapter he talks about the true love he had for this girl named Linda, and after their first date he tells us how she was sick and passed away from a brain tumor. ... This showed how he understands that Linda is gone, but all the dreams he made up stick in his mind even when Tim is in war. After spending more time at war and having more experiences O'Brien understands how the soldiers handle their losses with jokes, but he never gets used to it. ... Kiowa goes on to tell O'Brien how he did what was right by explaining what the other soldiers did was not decent. ... In the ...

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So O'Brien feels as if it is important to tell his readers, through Rat's story of course, how the men see Mary Anne. ... What he is mostly interested in is assisting our comprehension of what Vietnam War means and how its meaning directly affected the story O'Brien calls his life. ... She is now a being with no inhibitions under the spell of a larger entity, her true self. ... What he is mostly interested in is assisting our comprehension of what Vietnam War means and how its meaning directly affected the story O'Brien calls his life. ... No matter how accurate or trut...

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It was the first war televised, making people more aware of what was happening overseas. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... With the Cold War, the United States had promised to keep communism from spreading. ... The bigger issue was the Cold War. The Vietnam conflict only became a larger issue when a civil war broke out in Laos, We needed to find out how serious this problem was so we sent vice president Johnson to Vietnam to assess the issue. ...

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The pictures and letters symbolized their past and what they left behind them when they went to the war. ... That was significant because it symbolizes that he has left his past and is know in the jungle concentrating on the war. ... Mark Fossie, her boyfriend, gets her to go back to how she was for a little but she returns to her wild way. ... Linda, Tim's first true love, died of a brain tumor when they were in the fifth grade. Tim tells stories about her in the novel and it almost feels like she is still alive. ...

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As he tells the story, he describes the tangible and intangible items that the soldiers chose to load their packs and hearts with. ... The intangible emotions show his true heart and soul. ... This shows how uneasy he is on the Vietnam battlefield, and O"Brien uses him as a tool to show the way that most of the young men feel in this time. ... Through Oppliger 3 historical works, readers have been given a portrayal of exactly how strenuous war is. ... Although both burdens can cause pain, the true pain is the emotional, intangible feelings. ...

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., and his story begins at 17 years of age in 1974 right after high school. ... The best thing my dad remembers about the war is how beautiful Vietnam was. ... The worst thing my dad remembers is how the Vietnamese treated each other. ... Even though he might not agree with a war we are fighting as a soldier my father says he would serve anytime and anywhere his country needed him to be because he is a true patriot. ... My father didn't return home right after Vietnam, he was sent to Africa after a short R&R, so he didn't see how the American people booed the returning veterans fro...

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This statement proves how the U.S. uses the war as a justification for wide spread destruction and repression. ... Kerry says that he feels ashamed to have fought in the Vietnam War because of how negatively received war veterans are by the people of our country. He talks about how they were testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia and were honorably discharged. He tells how these crimes were committed on a day to day basis and officers at all levels of command new that this was going on. Horrible stories were told about how they had personally raped, cut off ears, heads, limbs, b...

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