An Essay drawing connections between the Vietnam War and the fictional novel of "The Things They Carried".

Emotions of War: Parallels Between "The Things They Carried" and the real Vietnam War is like fog, it moves to and fro, it comes as a slow moving loom and leaves like a flash; as it dissipates it leaves behind dampness. If the fog is war then the dampness is the emotions; that is the residual affects of war. The emotions are things that stick to everyone "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers (Narosky)". …showed first 75 words of 2281 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2281 total…amp;lt;http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/pdocs/OBrien_TheThingsTheyCarried.pdf> O'Brien Tim. The Things They Carried. Penguin, New York, 1990. "The Legacy of Psychological Trauma from the Vietnam War for American Indian Military <Tab/>Personnel." U.S Department of Veteran Affairs. 22 July 2005. 4 May 2006. <Tab/><Tab/>< http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/facts/veterans/fs_native_vets.html>