https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804 Post an example for at least 3 devices. en-us 2018-08-16 11:34:58 UTC 2018-08-17 17:46:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273533540 "...There were times of panic, when they squealed or wanted to squeal but couldn't, when they twitched and made moaning sounds and covered their heads and said Dear Jesus and flopped around on the earth and fired their weapons blindly and cringed and sobbed and begged for the noise to stop and went wild and made stupid promises to themselves and to God and to their mothers and fathers, hoping not to die" (18). ]]> 2018-08-16 16:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273533540 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273534667 "...It was flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast, silent vacuum...and so at night, not quite dreaming, they gave themselves over to lightness, they were carried, they were purely borne" (22). ]]> 2018-08-16 16:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273534667 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273536829 "I remember Mitchell Sanders sitting quietly..." (30).

"I remember Norman Bowker and Henry Dobbins playing checkers..." (31).

"I remember Mitchell Sanders smiling..." (34).

"I remember these things, too" (35). ]]> 2018-08-16 16:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273536829 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273537711 "Eddie Diamond, the ranking NCO, made a small motion with his hand..." (89).]]> 2018-08-16 16:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273537711 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273557682 "They carried USO stationery and pencils and pens. They carried Sterno, safety pins, trip flares, signal flares, spools of wire, razor blades, chewing tobacco, liberated joss sticks and statuettes of the smiling Buddha, candles, grease pencils, The Stars and Stripes, fingernail clippers, Psy Ops leaflets, bush hats, bolos and much more...They carried plastic water containers, each with a soda pop"(13).

]]> 2018-08-16 18:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273557682 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273558338 "Not to anyone. Not to my parents, not to my brother or sister, not even to my wife" (37).]]> 2018-08-16 18:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273558338 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273559754 "My daughter Kathleen tell me it's an obsession, that I should write about a little girl who finds a million dollars and spends it all on a Shetland pony" (33). ]]> 2018-08-16 18:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273559754 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273560139 "You admire the fluid symmetries of troops on the move, the harmonies of sound and shape and proportion, the great sheets of metal-fire streaming down from a gunship, the illumination rounds, the white phosphorous, the purply glow of napalm, the rocket's red glare" (77).]]> 2018-08-16 18:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273560139 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273560907 "In the beginning the idea seemed purely abstract, the word Canada printing itself out in my head; but after a time I could see particular shapes and images, the sorry details of my own future - a hotel room in Winnipeg, a battered old suitcase, my father's eyes as I tried to explain myself over the telephone" (42).]]> 2018-08-16 18:14:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273560907 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273561702 "For a while it went back and forth, but Dave Jensen was much bigger and much stronger, and eventually he wrapped an arm around Strunk's neck and pinned him down and kept hitting him on the nose" (59).]]> 2018-08-16 18:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273561702 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273561943 "It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river...It's about love and memory..." (81).]]> 2018-08-16 18:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273561943 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273563730 "And as a result his friend Kiowa was dead" (163).]]> 2018-08-16 18:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273563730 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273564888 "...listening to the rain and explosions and bubbling sounds" (164).]]> 2018-08-16 18:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273564888 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273565775 "He stepped back and shot it through the right front knee.... He shot it in the hindquarters and in the little hump at its back. He shot it twice in the flanks" (75).]]> 2018-08-16 18:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273565775 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273566974 "They told stories about Ted Lavender's supply of tranquilizers, how the poor guy didn't feel a thing, how incredibly tranquil he was" (19).]]> 2018-08-16 18:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273566974 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273567969 "As a medic, Rat Kiley carried a canvas satchel filled with morphine and plasma and malaria tablets and surgical tape and comic books and all the things a medic must carry," (5).]]> 2018-08-16 18:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273567969 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273569508 "Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone?" (11).]]> 2018-08-16 18:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273569508 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273569648 "They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, they carried each other, the wounded or the weak" (14).]]> 2018-08-16 18:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273569648 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273591210 "He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men" (5).]]> 2018-08-16 19:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273591210 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273599324 "they used his poncho to wrap him up, then to carry him across the paddy, then to lift him into the chopper that carried him away" (3).]]> 2018-08-16 20:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273599324 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273599980 "They carried M-14s and CAR-15s and Swedish Ks and grease guns and captured AK-47s and Chi-
coms and RPGs and Simonov carbines and black market Uzis and .38 caliber Smith & Wesson handguns and 66 mm LAWs and shotguns and silencers and blackjacks and bayonets and C-4 plastic explosives" (7).

]]> 2018-08-16 20:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273599980 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273600132 "I hated dirt and tents and mosquitoes" (39).]]> 2018-08-16 20:48:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273600132 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273600884 "The AO lay along the South China Sea, where things had the feel of a resort, with white beaches and palm trees and friendly little villages" (83).]]> 2018-08-16 20:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273600884 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273600908  "I'm young and tan and fit," (52)]]> 2018-08-16 20:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273600908 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273601252 "Rat tells her what a great brother she had, how together the guy was, a number one pal and comrade" (64).]]> 2018-08-16 20:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273601252 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273601347 " It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done" (65).]]> 2018-08-16 20:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273601347 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273603055 "  First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey," (1)]]> 2018-08-16 21:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273603055 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273603817 "I saw a sixteen-year-old kid decked out for his first prom, looking spiffy in a white tux and a black bow tie, his hair cut short and flat, his shoes freshly polished" (55).]]> 2018-08-16 21:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273603817 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273608775 "They lose it. They get on the radio [...] They get arty and gunships. They call in air strikes [...] They make jungle juice [...] They blow away trees and glee clubs and whatever else there is to blow away [...] They walk napalm up and down the ridges. They bring in the Cobras and F-4s, they use Willie Peter and HE and incendiaries [...] They make those mountains burn" (O'Brien 71). ]]> 2018-08-16 21:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273608775 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273609792 "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross began composing a letter in his head to the kid's father, not mentioning the shit field, just saying what a fine soldier Kiowa had been [...]" (O'Brien 157). ]]> 2018-08-16 22:03:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273609792 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273611842 "In the evenings, [...] she would sometimes fall into long elastic silences, her eyes fixed on the dark, her arms folded, her foot tapping out a coded message against the floor" (O'Brien 95). ]]> 2018-08-16 22:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273611842 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273612269 "My daughter Kathleen tells me it's an obsession, that I should write about a little girl who finds a million dollars and spends it all on a Shetland pony" (33).]]> 2018-08-16 22:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273612269 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273612602 "War is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love" (76).]]> 2018-08-16 22:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273612602 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273612977 "They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried" (7). ]]> 2018-08-16 22:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273612977 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273614734 "When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war. You could blame the idiots who made the war. You could blame Kiowa for going to it. You could blame the rain. You could blame the river. You could blame the field, the mud, the climate. You could blame the enemy. You could blame the mortar rounds. You could blame people who were too lazy to read a newspaper, who were bored by the daily body counts, who switched channels at the mention of politics. You could blame whole nations. You could blame God. You could blame the munitions makers or Karl Marx or a trick of fate or an old man in Omaha who forgot to vote" (169-170). ]]> 2018-08-16 22:51:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273614734 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273614949 "When it was available, they also carried M-16 maintenance gear - rods and steel brushes and swabs and tubes of LSA oil - all of which weighed about about a pound" (5).]]> 2018-08-16 22:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273614949 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273616061 "When she was nine, my daughter Kathleen asked if I had ever killed anyone" (125).]]> 2018-08-16 23:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273616061 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273619681 "On my last full day, the sixth day, the old man took me out fishing on the Rainy River" (52).]]> 2018-08-16 23:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273619681 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273620083 "What would you do?

Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?" (54)]]> 2018-08-16 23:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273620083 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273620887 "...Rat Kiley put on a tourniquet and administered morphine and ran plasma into him." (63)]]> 2018-08-16 23:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273620887 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273621684 "I was afraid of walking away from my own life, my friends and my family, my whole history, everything that mattered to me" (42).]]> 2018-08-17 00:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273621684 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273622306 She wore her pink sweater and a white blouse and a simple cotton skirt" (105).]]> 2018-08-17 00:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273622306 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273622960 "There was plenty of cold beer, three hot meals a day, a tin roof over his head" (87).]]> 2018-08-17 00:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273622960 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273623987 "His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole." (118)

"His jaw was in his throat. His one eye was shut and the other was a star-shaped hole." (120)

"He lay at the center of the trail, his right leg bent beneath him, his one eye shut, his other eye a huge star-shaped hole. eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole." (127)

"His jaw was in his throat. His one eye was shut, the other eye was a star-shaped hole." (172)]]> 2018-08-17 00:30:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273623987 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273624589 "they carried hot chow in green mermite cans and large canvas bags filled with iced beer and soda pop". (13)]]> 2018-08-17 00:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273624589 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273624664 "They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct." (14)

]]> 2018-08-17 00:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273624664 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273625791 "Some carried themselves with a sort of wistful resignation, others with pride or stiff soldierly discipline or good humor or macho zeal" (19).]]> 2018-08-17 00:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273625791 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273625917 "It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen." (81)]]> 2018-08-17 00:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273625917 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273626268 "Looking out across the water hazard that fronted the small flat green, a seven iron in his hand, calculating wind and distance, wondering if he should reach instead for an eight" (160)]]> 2018-08-17 00:54:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273626268 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273628208 "I was too good for this war. Too smart, too compassionate, too everything" (39).]]> 2018-08-17 01:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273628208 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273628566 "But it was real, I know that much, it was a physical rupture-a cracking-leaking-popping feeling." (44)]]> 2018-08-17 01:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273628566 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273629639 "No Mitchell Sanders, you tell her. No lemon, no Rat Kiley. No trail junction. No baby buffalo. No vines or moss or white blossoms. Beginning to end, you tell her, it's all made up" (81). ]]> 2018-08-17 01:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273629639 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273630705 "Behind me, in the jeep, my daughter Kathleen sat waiting with a government interpreter, and now and then I could hear the two of them talking in soft voices" (174).]]> 2018-08-17 01:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/18zltqaah804/wish/273630705