https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e 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 19:37:51 UTC 2018-08-16 16:06:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273343637 "'Daddy, tell the truth," Kathleen can say, "did you ever kill anybody?" And I can say, honestly, "Of course not." Or I can say, honestly, "Yes"." (172]]> 2018-08-15 20:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273343637 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273346348 "For a long time I lay there all alone, listening to the battle, thinking I've been shot, I've been shot: all those Gene Autry movies I'd seen as a kid. In fact, I almost smiled, except then I started to think I might die" (180).]]> 2018-08-15 20:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273346348 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273348959 "To listen to the story, especially as Rat Kiley told it, you'd never know that Curt Lemon was dead" (227).]]> 2018-08-15 21:20:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273348959 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273353052 "Even in my imagination, the shore was just twenty yards away, I couldn't make myself be brave. It had nothing to do with morality. Embarrassment, that's all it was" (57).]]> 2018-08-15 21:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273353052 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273359641 "On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance" (31).]]> 2018-08-15 23:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273359641 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273360683 "I passed through towns with familiar names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to the war" (58).]]> 2018-08-15 23:25:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273360683 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273362942 "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).]]> 2018-08-15 23:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273362942 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273363110 "Courage, I seemed to think, comes to us in finite quantities, like an inheritance and by being frugal and stashing it away and letting it earn interest, we steadily increase our moral capital in preparation for that day when the account must be drawn down" (38).]]> 2018-08-15 23:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273363110 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273378777 "It comes down to gut instinct. A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe" (74).]]> 2018-08-16 01:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273378777 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273381185 "Naturally I wanted to do something about it, but it just wasn't possible. I had my reputation to think about. I had my pride" (221).]]> 2018-08-16 02:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273381185 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273381239 "War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and outage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love" (76).]]> 2018-08-16 02:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273381239 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273381950 "He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be" (147).]]> 2018-08-16 02:14:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273381950 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273392518 "Twenty years ago I watched a man die on a trail near the village of My Khe. I did not kill him. But I was present, you see, my presence was guilt enough" (171).]]> 2018-08-16 03:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273392518 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273452903 "I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth" (171).]]> 2018-08-16 11:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273452903 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273495791 "It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do." (24)]]> 2018-08-16 14:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273495791 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273513808 "This one wakes me up" (O'Brien 79). ]]> 2018-08-16 15:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273513808 https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273514018 "'No sweat,' he said. 'The magic doesn't go away."' (112)]]> 2018-08-16 15:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kmcgauley/6eo5ruyyqb5e/wish/273514018