https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms Post a favorite line from the novel. Please include the page number. Do not post a line that is already on the wall. en-us 2018-08-15 19:34:05 UTC 2025-10-22 10:31:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273346045 "The rain was the war and you had to fight it." (O'Brien 156)]]> 2018-08-15 20:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273346045 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273347746 "It was a kind of self-hypnosis. Partly willpower, partly faith, which is how stories arrive" (244).]]> 2018-08-15 21:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273347746 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273348998 "They didn't disturb the body, they just grabbed the old man's hand and offered a few words and moved away" (214).]]> 2018-08-15 21:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273348998 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273351247 "Grief, terror, love, longing- these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight" (20). ]]> 2018-08-15 21:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273351247 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273362862 "In addition to the three standard weapons--the M-60, M-16, and M-79--they carried whatever presented itself, or whatever seemed appropriate as a means of killing or staying alive." (7)]]> 2018-08-15 23:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273362862 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273363779 “For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel -the spiritual texture of a ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There Is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths are no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery (78).” 

]]> 2018-08-15 23:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273363779 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273365407 "As a moral declaration the old truism seems perfectly true, and yet because it abstracts, because it generalizes, I can't believe it with my stomach". (74) ]]> 2018-08-16 00:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273365407 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273372407 "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).]]> 2018-08-16 01:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273372407 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273383159 "The only certainty that summer was moral confusion. It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes." (38-39)]]> 2018-08-16 02:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273383159 mesha_mumford https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273450971 "She'll explain that as a rule she hates war stories; she can't understand why people want to wallow in all the blood and gore" (80).]]> 2018-08-16 11:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273450971 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273452596 "Almost nothing is true. At its core, perhaps, war is just another name for death, and yet any soldier will tell you, if he tells the truth, that proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life"(77).]]> 2018-08-16 11:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273452596 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273452936 "A good war story, he thought, but it was not a war for war stories, nor for talk of valor, and nobody in town wanted to know about the terrible stink. They wanted good intentions and good deeds" (143).]]> 2018-08-16 11:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273452936 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273453185 "Courage is not always a matter of yes or no. Sometimes it came in degrees, like the cold; sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave" (141)]]> 2018-08-16 11:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/228h29o9hjms/wish/273453185