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"The things they carried were largely determined by necessity."(2)

Maxwell Auran

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"Even now, I'll admit, the story makes me squirm. For more than twenty years I've had to live with it, feeling the shame, trying to push it away," (pg 37) 

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"Even now, I'll admit, the story makes me squirm. For more than twenty years I've had to live with it, feeling the shame, trying to push it away," (pg 37) 

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Maria Sandoval

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"Courage, I seemed to think, comes to us in finite quantities... it offered hope and grace to the repetitive coward." (38) -Nile

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"There should be a law, I thought. If you support a war ,if you think its worth the price, that's fine, but you have to put your own precious fluids on the line."(40)

Maxwell Auran

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"It was nearly three weeks before she returned. But in a sense she never returned. Not entirely, not all of her" (100)
-Karalee

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"In ordinary hours of life I try not to dwell on it, but now and then, when I'm reading a newspaper or just sitting alone in a room, I'll look up and see the young man step out of the morning fog"
Bryanna Martinez

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"you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you.If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth;if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote."(66)

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"you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you.If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth;if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote."(66)

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-Robert Chihuaque

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"A true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth" (pg 74)

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"A true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth" (pg 74)

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Maria Sandoval

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"In times of action her face took on a sudden new composure, almost serene, the fuzzy blue eyes narrowing into a tight, intelligent focus. Mark Fossie would grin at this. He was proud, yes, but also amazed. A different person it seemed, but he wasn't sure what to make of it" (93-94)
-Karalee

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"A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior."(65)

Maxwell Auran

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"I was too good for this war. Too smart, too compassionate, too everything. It couldn't happen. I was above it." (39) -Nile

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"In any war story, but specially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen." (67) - Miguel Scott

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"Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons. I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history of law. The very facts were shrouded in uncertainty: Was it a civil war? A war of national liberation or simple aggression?" (pg 38) Kodie

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"I'm saying it's possible as an idea, even necessary as an idea, a  final cause in the whole structure of causation." (133)- Miguel Scott

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"The bubbliness was gone. The nervous giggling, too. When she laughed now, which was rare, it was only when something struck her as truly funny." (95)
-Karalee

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"I feared losing the respect of my parents. I feared the law. I feared ridicule and censure." (pg 42) Kodie

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"It's nothing," she said. "Really nothing. To tell you the truth, I've never been happier in my life. Never." (95)
-Karalee

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"Its almost like I  got killed over in Nam...Hard to describe. That night Kiowa got wasted, I sort of sank in to the sewage down with him...Feels like im still in deep shit."

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"Its almost like I  got killed over in Nam...Hard to describe. That night Kiowa got wasted, I sort of sank in to the sewage down with him...Feels like im still in deep shit."

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-Robert Chihuaque

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"they shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. often they carried each other, the wounded or weak". (pg39)

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"they shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. often they carried each other, the wounded or weak". (pg39)

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-javier sanchez

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"He hoked going by, but neither boy looked up," (133).

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"He hoked going by, but neither boy looked up," (133).

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"The star-shaped hole was red and yellow. The yellow part seemed to be getting wider, spreading out at the center

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""How'd you like to hear about the war?" he might have asked, but the place could only blink and shrug."(137)

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""How'd you like to hear about the war?" he might have asked, but the place could only blink and shrug."(137)

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Maxwell Auran

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"sometimes I want to eat this place. The whole country the dirt, the death - I just want to swallow it and have there inside me" (pg 106)

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"sometimes I want to eat this place. The whole country the dirt, the death - I just want to swallow it and have there inside me" (pg 106)

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Maria Sandoval

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"A slim, hipless young carhop passed by, but when he hit the horn, she did not seem to notice," (144).

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"A slim, hipless young carhop passed by, but when he hit the horn, she did not seem to notice," (144).

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"sometimes I want to eat this place. The whole country The dirt, the death I just want to swallow it and have it inside me" (pg 106).

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"sometimes I want to eat this place. The whole country The dirt, the death I just want to swallow it and have it inside me" (pg 106).

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Maria Sandoval

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"I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to war." (58)
-Karalee

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They all carried Ghost. When dark came, they would move out single file across the meadows and paddies to their ambush coordinates, where they would quietly set up the clay mores and lie down and spend the night waiting (pg.9).-Moi

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" You can tell a true war story by the way it never seems to end."(72)

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" You can tell a true war story by the way it never seems to end."(72)

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-Marina A

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"In a true war story, but especially a true one, its difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen." (67)

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"In a true war story, but especially a true one, its difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen." (67)

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Ashley Bidiman

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"I feared the war, yes, but I also feared exile. I was afraid of walking away from my own life, my friends and my family, my whole history, everything that mattered to me..."(42)
-Dominique Taylor

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"If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty." (66)
- David Duarte-Garcia

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" True war stories do not generalize. They do not indulge in abstraction or analysis."(74) 

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" True war stories do not generalize. They do not indulge in abstraction or analysis."(74) 

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-Marina A

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"almost everyone humped photographs" (3)
theo frame

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"I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to the war." (58

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"I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to the war." (58

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-Tyler Handley

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They carry 20 pounds of supplies, 14 pounds of ammunition, alone with radios, machines guns assault rifles and grenades.
( pg 1) Esther Johnson

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". . . True war story  can not be believed. If you believe it be skeptical. Its a question of credibility" (68) 

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". . . True war story  can not be believed. If you believe it be skeptical. Its a question of credibility" (68) 

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" She wasn't dumb," he'd snap. " i never said that. Young, that's all i said. Like you and me. A girl, that's the only difference, and I'll tell you something: it didn't amount to jack. I mean, when we first got here-all of us- we were real young and innocent, full of romantic bullshit, but we learned pretty damn quick. And so did Mary Anne "

Carlos Montelongo

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"For more than twenty years I've had to live with it,feeling the shame,trying to push it away, and so by this act of remembrance, by putting the facts down on paper, I'm hoping to relive at least some of the pressure on my dreams."(37)
-Emma Cuno

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" Most of them were common grunts and carried the standard m-16 gas operated assault rifle." ( 5

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" Most of them were common grunts and carried the standard m-16 gas operated assault rifle." ( 5

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Natali Lazaro

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"There was nothing they could do for Kiowa... Whenever a man died it was always the same, a desire to get it over with quickly, no frills no ceremony"(158-159)
-Tim C.

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-Tyler Handley

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“What happened to her, Rat said, was what happened to all of them. You come over clean and you get dirty and then afterward it’s never the same.” (109)
- David Duarte-Garcia

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"yeah, well, he finally said. I don't see no moral". (13)

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"yeah, well, he finally said. I don't see no moral". (13)

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Theo Frame

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"You cant tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote." (66)

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"You cant tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote." (66)

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-Tyler Handley

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"...stories can save us...I keep dreaming Linda alive. And Ted Lavander too, and kiowa, and Curt Lemon, and a slim young man I killed... They're all dead. But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world"(213)
-Dominique Taylor

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“He knew he would die quickly. He knew he would see a flash of light. He knew he would fall dead and wake up in the stories of his village and people.” (123-4)
- David Duarte-Garcia

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"...we all did. The way she looked, Mary Anne made you think about those girls back home, how clean and innocent they all are, how they'll never understand any of this, not in a billion years." (113) Careli C

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"Its almost like I  got killed over in Nam...Hard to describe. That night Kiowa got wasted, I sort of sank in to the sewage down with him...Feels like I'm still in deep shit."(150)

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"Its almost like I  got killed over in Nam...Hard to describe. That night Kiowa got wasted, I sort of sank in to the sewage down with him...Feels like I'm still in deep shit."(150)

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Ashley Bidiman

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The draft notice arrived on June 17, 1968. It was a humid afternoon, I remember, cloudy and very quiet, and i'd just come in from a round of golf''. ( 41)
Natali Lazaro

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"I mean, when we first got here-all of us-we were real young and innocent, full of romantic bullshit, but we learned pretty damn quick." (93)  -Fabian

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"I mean, when we first got here-all of us-we were real young and innocent, full of romantic bullshit, but we learned pretty damn quick." (93)  -Fabian

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When she came in through the wire that night, I was right there, I saw those eyes of hers, I saw how she wasn't even the same person no more."(102)
-Marina A

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The dirt, the death i just want to swallow it and have it there inside me. Thats how i feel. its like the appetite i get scared something lots of times but its not bad you know(pg.106Z

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"For all the ambiguities of Vietnam,all the mysteries and unknowns, there was at least the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry". (15)

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"For all the ambiguities of Vietnam,all the mysteries and unknowns, there was at least the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry". (15)

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Theo Frame

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"He was just a kid at war, in love".(11) - Isak Dineen

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"Whenever he looked at the photographs, he thought of new things he should have done." (pg.4)- Nancy A

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"In war you lose your sense of definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore its safe to say that in a true war story nothing is ever absolutely true."(78) Careli C

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"Sometimes I want to eat this place. The whole country- the dirt, the death- I just want to swallow it and have it there inside me."(106)
-Marina A

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“What it came down to, stupidly, was a sense of shame. I did not want people to think badly of me.” (49)
- David Duarte-Garcia

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I remember the smell of burnt straw; I remember broken fences and torn-up trees and heaps of stone and brick and pottery. ( 225-226 )
Natali Lazaro

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"They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it" (19)

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"They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it" (19)

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Theo Frame

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"By daylight they took sniper fire, at night they were mortared, but it was not battle, it was just the endless march, village to village, without purpose, nothing won or lost." (15)
- David Duarte-Garcia

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"what they carried was partly a function of rank, partly of field specialty."(5)

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"what they carried was partly a function of rank, partly of field specialty."(5)

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Ashley Bidiman

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A stupid mistake, that's all it was, but it killed kiowa" (161)
-Dominique Taylor

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"But this too is true: stories can save us. I'm forty three years old, and a writer now, and even still, right here, I keep dreaming Linda alive. And Ted Lavender,  too, and Kiowa, and Curt Lemon, and a slim young man I killed, and an old man sprawled beside a pigpen, and several others whose bodies I once lifted and dumped into a truck. They're all dead. But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world."(213)

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"But this too is true: stories can save us. I'm forty three years old, and a writer now, and even still, right here, I keep dreaming Linda alive. And Ted Lavender,  too, and Kiowa, and Curt Lemon, and a slim young man I killed, and an old man sprawled beside a pigpen, and several others whose bodies I once lifted and dumped into a truck. They're all dead. But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world."(213)

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Maxwell Auran

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"I take a high leap in into the dark and thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a Story"(233)
-Joel Meinhardt