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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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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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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., 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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