https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x Respond to each question and reply to *at least three* other posts (with meaningful commentary, please!) this week. en-us 2020-03-16 18:17:00 UTC 2020-03-29 17:42:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/463522980 "They carried all they could bear, and then some, including the silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried"(7).
While listing the tangible things they carried, O'Brien made sure to reference the intangible things, love, fear, distrust. these men were weighed down not only by their weapons but their own personal feelings, problems, and the realization that they could and would do severe damage in this war.]]> 2020-03-17 17:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/463522980 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/463665300 "Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried tranquilizers until he was shot in the head outside the village of Than Khe in mid-April... Until he was shot, Ted Lavender carried 6 or 7 ounces of premium dope, which for him was a necessity.....In April, for instance, when Ted Lavender was shot, they used his poncho to wrap him into the chopper that took him away" (O'Brien 2-3).
The repetition of Ted Lavender serves as a cautionary tale of sorts. The different manipulations of the phrasing "was shot" followed by something ill-considered Lavender did serves to caution against distractions in the war. It may also serve to represent what could happen to Lieutenant Cross if he continues his delusions about Martha]]> 2020-03-17 19:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/463665300 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/463700207 My cat, rice cooker, heated blanket, plants, computer, and cast iron skillet.]]> 2020-03-17 20:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/463700207 adenchfield2543 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/463838861 "They were actors.  When someone died, it wasn't quite dying, because in a curious way it seemed scripted, and because they had their lines mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy, and because they called it by other names, as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself. They kicked corpses. They cut off thumbs. They talked grunt lingo" (O'Brien 19).
This passage demonstrates how desensitized the soldiers had become to war and the tragedy that went along with it. Death became the mundane.

]]> 2020-03-17 23:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/463838861 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464442572 "Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to war in the first place, nothing positive, no dream of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died as so not to die of embarrassment." (O'Brien 21) 
This quote presents the unseen driving factor for many young soldiers. Fear of embarrassment was at the core of almost every decision made during this war. ]]> 2020-03-18 13:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464442572 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464448938 "On occasions the war was like a ping-pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance."  (Page 31).
I think its a really important quote because it concedes that yes the war was horrible for almost all involved but it was always possible to find that little silver lining or possible to crack even a little joke in the hardest of times. It goes to show that they were just guys being dudes and were able to sometimes make something out of nothing. ]]> 2020-03-18 13:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464448938 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464455361 This shows how all of the war and the things that go with it weigh down on the soldiers. The terrible powers they carry is referencing their guns and how much destruction and death it can bring, and the men have to live with that.]]> 2020-03-18 13:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464455361 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464457320 "They were called legs or grunts. To carry something was to hump it, as when lieutenant Jimmy Cross humped his love for Martha up the hills and through the swamps. In its intransitive form, to hump meant to walk, or to march, but it implied burdens far beyond the intransitive."
(Page 3)
This passage serves as a great example of the military jargon that O'Brien uses in much of his writing. Coming from the military himself these words have become part of his regular vocabulary or diction. ]]> 2020-03-18 13:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464457320 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464465808 O'Brien keeps using words like "carried" "carry" "weigh" throughout the first chapter to hint at how the war is weighing down on the soldiers, and their emotions. They are not only carrying heavy equipment, they are carrying the weight of killing people, and destroying a country.]]> 2020-03-18 13:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464465808 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464470684 "Now and then however 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." (O'Brien 19) 
Here the author uses repetition to demonstrates the hardships and fears faces by the men. Here the word 'and' is used 13 times to help reinforce the difficulties being faced. By creating this repetition the reader can observe closely the authors point before O'Brien quickly moves on. ]]> 2020-03-18 13:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464470684 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464472194 My clothes, some pencils, a phone, car, shoes, and toothbrush.]]> 2020-03-18 13:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464472194 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464475731 The PS4, my male teen one a day multi-vitamins (gotta stay fit), Motrin, the single style of grey and black vans that I wear everyday and have gone through 3 pairs of (you know the ones), like one or two cans of pringles (BBQ flavor), and the wide eyed ambition of a freshly released inmate from the public K-12 system who's dreams and aspirations have not yet been crushed by the brutal gauntlet of society and the ever present kick in the nards that is life. ]]> 2020-03-18 13:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464475731 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464493361 My phone, pillow, planner, fuzzy socks, trail mix, phone charger ]]> 2020-03-18 14:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464493361 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464598340 This stands out to me simply due to the fact that leaders are not supposed to love what they do, whether that may be leading a really boring seminar that no one cares about, or in this, leading soldiers into battle where everyone of them has a good chance of dying. But leaders need to lead and they need to lead well and effectively, otherwise nothing will ever get done. I have to do that now in JROTC; lead people to do stuff that they do not want to necessarily do but I still have to do it.]]> 2020-03-18 15:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464598340 cnance4650 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464618408 "They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried" (7). This quote really demonstrates the long shadow that a war can cast on the individuals who partake in it and the true tragedy of war no matter who wins or loses. 
"The things they carried were determined to some extent by superstition. Lieutenant Cross carried his good luck pebble. Dave Jensen carried a rabbit foot. Norman Bowker, otherwise a very gentle person carried a thumb given to him by Mitchell Sanders" (12). 
This quote demonstrates how O'Brien individually lists details about each character in order to establish a close relationship between the reader and the novel.  ]]> 2020-03-18 15:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464618408 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464633345 This quote is to represent all of the parallelism that O'Brien uses to illustrate how much these men had to carry during their tour(s) in Vietnam,  not only just the physical objects (like firearms, ammunition, and any other supplies), but also all of their feelings (longing to go home, hopes of staying alive, etc) and all of the treacherous missions that they had to endure (the hot and humid climate, elephant grass blades cutting them, and of course the constant caution of the enemy being everywhere and nowhere).]]> 2020-03-18 15:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464633345 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464699859 "Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story (page 36)."

This quote demonstrates how O'Brien copes with how life was in the war, in a way. When he can't fathom how his life had changed so drastically, he writes his stories to connect the past and present. O'Brien wrights that remembering the was makes it seem as if it were not "half a lifetime away," and this prompts him to wright his stories.

]]> 2020-03-18 16:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464699859 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464706255 “A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather they were too frightened to be cowards.” -21 

The quote shows how the soldiers were not fighting because they had the courage or because they wanted to defend their country, they were fighting to be manly. Being a soldier required a sense of strength and all the men wanted to be viewed as strong even if it was just an act. ]]> 2020-03-18 16:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464706255 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464715348 “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing — these were intangibles, but the tangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight.” -20 

The symbol of tangible and intangible weight is a reoccurring idea in the first chapter. O’Brien uses the play on weigh to emphasize the loads soldiers carried. He wants the reader (you) to understand how much the men had to go through physically and mentally then holding their manly appearance.]]> 2020-03-18 16:09:43 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464715348 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464721473 "A red clay trail outside the village of My Khe. A hand grenade. A slim, dead, dainty young man of about twenty. Kiowa saying, "No choice, Tim. What else could you do?" Kiowa saying, "Right?" Kiowa saying, "Talk to me (page 36)."

A big part of O'Brien's style is through his use of syntax, and in this case, short and abrupt sentences. His words here are not eloquent and over-hyped, yet they are powerful. This quote details a traumatic experience that O'Brien had gone through, and it is only briefly spoken of. The swift mention of his experience illustrates how O'Brien can relay the severity of the moment without writing about too personal a moment. ]]> 2020-03-18 16:12:34 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464721473 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464740603 This is meant to go for the third question
1. Laptop
2. Military coin collection
3. Headphones/Earbuds
4. My Medals
5. Bible + Pen + Journal
6. Self-Confidence]]> 2020-03-18 16:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464740603 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464746569 A book, my beliefs, pens, a candle, sweater, and money. ]]> 2020-03-18 16:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464746569 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464764792 "This was not mount Sebastian, it was another world, where there were no pretty poems or midterm exams, a place where men died because of carelessness and gross stupidity. Kiowa was right. Boom-down, and you were dead, never partly dead"(23).
At this point, O'Brien was trying to show Cross's distinct change emotionally after losing Lavender. He blamed himself because he was distracted by Martha so his solution was to disregard totally abandon all thoughts and fantasies of love. This would follow him for decades after the war.]]> 2020-03-18 16:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464764792 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464773564 My clothes, my Docs, some of my books, my phone, my charger, and money]]> 2020-03-18 16:39:51 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464773564 jbaschnagel5161 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464882411 Men killed, and died, because they are embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment. (O'Brien, pg 21).

I thought this was significant because many people don't understand the pressure and mindset of war. In fact I feel that some Americans treat war like a football, but they don't fully understand what soldiers go through on a daily basis. This part made me really think so that is why I chose this quote.]]> 2020-03-18 17:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464882411 jbaschnagel5161 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464912012 They found jokes to tell. They used a hard vocabulary  to contain the terrible softness. Greased they'd say. Offed, lit out, zapped while zipping. It wasn't cruelty, just stage presence. They were actors. When someone died, it wasn't quite dying, because in a curious way felt scripted, and because they had their lines mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy, and because they called it other names, as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself. (O'Brien, pg 20).

I chose this quote because it used diction to tie the metaphor that the solider were like actors in a play that this reality they were living wasn't one they wanted to accept, so they acted as though it was really reality at all.
 ]]> 2020-03-18 18:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464912012 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464952432 "They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your bodies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper that would roar and dip its nose and carry you off to the world. A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage exactly; the object was not valor. Rather they were too frightened to be cowards."                     This book, like many others, illustrates that war is filled with contradictions. Those men all desired the refuge of a safe home, and yet, they kept going for the fear of being thought a coward. Similarly, those men were fighting to protect values and the idea of certain liberties, but part of how this was done was through fear and the restriction of citizen's lives. Everyday they deal with ending numerous lives to protect others; despite and perhaps because of this, they use many casual and puerile euphemisms to describe the death of a comrade and take pleasure in the death of certain innocents- dogs, sheep, children, and a puppy.  Bowker is described as a genuinely gentle person, but he carries a dead boy's thumb around for luck. In addition, Cross clearly does love Martha, but also was described of having fantasies that forced Martha to do what he would have enjoyed. There is a distinct duplicity, which war requires in order to have soldiers 
survive committing brutal acts to defend a valiant cause.]]> 2020-03-18 18:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464952432 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464973213 "Mostly he felt pleased to be alive. He liked the smell of the New Testament under his cheek, the leather and ink and paper and glue, whatever the chemicals were. He liked hearing the sound of the night (. . .) He enjoyed not being dead."
-Kiowa (O'Brien 17). This quote to me takes a small chunk of someone's experience and amplifies it to a larger theme. The senses attached to the New Testament seem to represent the safety and security of home. Kiowa associates these senses with not being dead. What strikes me is that the favored part of the New Testament is not the contents itself, but the senses attached to it. This shows that in such a desperate time that it is not God who is looked up to for security, but the innate human attachment to a home. Nietzsche would be proud.]]> 2020-03-18 18:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464973213 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464977690 "They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many aspects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could never be put down, it required perfect balance and perfect posture." (Page 20). I found this interesting because regardless of all of the hardships that war brings among the soldiers, their #1 priority was to maintain their stereotypical reputation of strong, fearless soldiers. This quote shows an inside perspective of how people really feel during a war. 

]]> 2020-03-18 18:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464977690 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464989224 "They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing- these were intangibles, but they had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could never be put down and required perfect balance and perfect posture. They carried their reputations."                      This quote brings to mind a vivid image of these soldiers carrying such heavy burdens; both physical and emotional baggage is recognized as real, with the potential to drag the person carrying such weight down. Humanity of soldiers is emphasized in this quote, for it is shown what these people need to survive and also what they cannot get rid of. They carry necessities for their missions, as well as what is needed to remind them of other aspects of live and suppress their current, harsh reality.  These men are also united for their shared burdens of a secret and immense fear, as well as the moments drenched in shame. In all of this chaos, though, they hold on to their immense love and dedication, which is truly inspiring.

]]> 2020-03-18 18:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464989224 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464989532 "Say what you want, the man does not care
We all got problems.
Not Lavender.
No, I guess not, Bowker said. Do me a favor, though.
Shut up?
That's a smart Indian, Shut up."
(O'Brien 17) 
This style of dialogue is different from others in that it is sometimes unclear as to who is talking. There is little indication from line to line mentioning an appositive sort of note of who was speaking. This works to its advantage, however, in that the dialogue flows much smoother, without the interruption after every line of who is speaking. O'Brien makes this choice to let the reader be more immersed in the dialogue, so the banter is more genuine and believable.]]> 2020-03-18 18:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464989532 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464994636 "They carried diseases, They carried lice, They carried the sky, They carried ect... (Page 14)" O'Brian uses repetition describing the things they carry throughout the war. He starts the sentence off with "They carried" every time. Most likely to emphasize the importance of the equipment the soldiers brought with them]]> 2020-03-18 18:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/464994636 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465039206 2020-03-18 19:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465039206 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465039244 2020-03-18 19:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465039244 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465040085 2020-03-18 19:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465040085 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465040129 2020-03-18 19:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465040129 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465244639 "It wasn't cruelty, just stage presence. They were actors. When someone died, it wasn't quite dying, because in a curious way it seemed scripted, and because they had their lines mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy, and because they called it by other names, as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself. They kicked corpses. They cut off thumbs. They talked grunt lingo." (Page 19) This quote explains just how "normal" the horror, and gore was in the war. It was a daily routine. An act. Their character was tough, and strong, physically and mentally. They could not break character, and be a coward, like just "falling" during a battle, or blowing their own toes off to get out of combat. The soldiers were able to escape the horrible and graphic reality of combat by filtering the horror in the consistency of a screen play, with actors and tragedies built in to their daily lives. This was their escape mechanism that kept them alive. The alternative, unfortunately, was to embrace the insanity of the moment, which was not a good long term strategy.]]> 2020-03-18 20:42:11 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465244639 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465280659 "He would accept the blame for what had happened to Ted Lavender. He would be a man about it. He would look them in the eyes, keeping his chin level, and he would issue the new SOPs in a calm, impersonal tone of voice, a lieutenant's voice, leaving no room for argument or discussion." (Page 24) O' Brien uses detail to get inside the head of Lieutenant Cross. He explains Cross' character change by describing the thoughts running through Cross' brain. Lieutenant Cross would no longer be "lazy" and focus on his love, Martha, instead of his own men's lives. ]]> 2020-03-18 20:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465280659 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465297877 Talents, wisdom, work ethic, the Corona virus, AP Lang Virtual School Work, and my confidence.]]> 2020-03-18 21:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465297877 bcole4493 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465601614 "They all carried the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight" (20). 
This quote emphasizes how these men not only carried loads of supplies, but they carried the effects of the war on their shoulders. It shows how the things that we aren't able to see or touch, the "intangibles," were burdens to the men, yet another side effect of war. ]]> 2020-03-19 00:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465601614 bcole4493 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465626289 I would carry my morals, my phone, some money, work ethic, memories, food. ]]> 2020-03-19 00:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465626289 bcole4493 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465632739 Okay forgive me for this quote is LONG lol: "There it is, they'd say. Over and over--there it is, my friend, there it is--as if the repetition itself were an act of poise, a balance between crazy and almost crazy, knowing without going, there it is, which meant be cool, let it ride, because Oh yeah, man, you can't change what can't be changed, there it is, there it absolutely and positively fu**ing well is" (20). 
Believe it or not, this is only about two sentences. O'Brien says "there it is" over and over again in this quote emphasizing that it is like a normal procedure for them to say this, that it was a sense of comfort mentally. It also shows O'Brien's rather informal way of writing-where he says "because Oh yeah, man" that gives the text a rather informal feel. Yet his words are very hard-hitting and significant despite this informal style.]]> 2020-03-19 00:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465632739 awoodlee5361 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465649682 "He enjoyed not being dead. Lying there, Kiowa admired Lieutenant Jimmy Cross's capacity for grief. He wanted to share the man's pain, he wanted to care as Jimmy Cross cared. And yet when he closed his eyes, all he could think was Boom-down,"(Pg. 17) -Kiowa's thought show the conditioning of the war in terms of death and despair. When you around something for such a long period of time, no matter how gruesome, the body eventually becomes conditioned and less empathetic. These men were constantly around death, and it made them emotionally detached. Just like Kiowa, wishing he could feel grief, but not being able to. He says himself "...the emotion wasn't there and he couldn't make it happen." And this spoke to me in terms of how people are affected when forced into war, and how they are affected mentally. I think this quote effectively shows how many of the soldiers in Vietnam felt, the growing lack of emotion.]]> 2020-03-19 01:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465649682 agiangrasso6141 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465651816 "It was phantom jealousy, he knew, but he couldn't help himself. He loved her so much. On the march, through the hot days of early April, he carried the pebble in his mouth, turning it with his tongue, tasting sea salt and moisture. His mind wandered. He had difficulty keeping his attention on the war. On occasion he would yell at his men to spread out the column, to keep their eyes open, but then he would slip away into daydreams, just pretending, walking barefoot along the Jersey Shore, with Martha, carrying nothing" (O'Brien 8). 
I found this quote to catch my interest because it describes the strong and intense passion that Lieutenant Jimmy has for Martha. He thinks about her constantly and reads her letters hoping that she'll express her love for him, although that never happens because she in fact does not love him and never will. He is so infatuated with her that, during the war, he loses focus sometimes and his mind wanders to thoughts of being with Martha. ]]> 2020-03-19 01:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465651816 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465652588 This quote emphasizes the idea that the men are becoming one with the war, one with Vietnam. You also see this in how desensitized the men have become to death and destruction. It can also be seen in the way the men think and talk. Think "hump." Reality has become blurred for these men, they only find slight solace in making jokes, or talking, or smoking. ]]> 2020-03-19 01:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465652588 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465657144 Seems kind of excessive, right? I noticed that O'Brien tends to slip into long, run on sentences. It portrays the panicky feeling of the soldiers, and almost stresses me out to read? He does this a lot when talking about the negative affects of war. ]]> 2020-03-19 01:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465657144 awoodlee5361 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465678105 "It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were to frightened to be cowards" (Pg. 21). -Here Tom O'Brien uses Juxtaposition to show the contradictions of the soldiers and the war overall. They stayed not to gain honor, they stayed to avoid dishonor. They endured despite the lack of courage. They didn't romanticize the war, they just wanted to survive.]]> 2020-03-19 02:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465678105 agiangrasso6141 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465679804 "Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak. They carried infections. They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct. They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery. They carried lice and ringworm and leeches and paddy algae and various rots in molds. They carried the land itself---Vietnam, the place the soil---a powdery orange-red dust that covered their boots and fatigues and faces. They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity" (O'Brien 14).
O'Brien uses parallelism in his writing through the repetition of "they carried" to emphasis the many things, tangible or intangible, that the soldiers in the war carried with them. He talks about the different weaponry and ammo they had and even goes into details about the weight of each item. He even mentions the comfort items soldiers had, such as photographs and loved one's clothing. It shows the meaning and importance behind everything that brought with them. ]]> 2020-03-19 02:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465679804 awoodlee5361 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465691361 I will bring my poor, old, beat up vans that I have been wearing since freshman year, my non existent self confidence, probably a phone charger, like 6 dollars, my copious amounts of colored pens, and I would drag Ada down with me.]]> 2020-03-19 02:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465691361 agiangrasso6141 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465701028 photos of loved ones, Polaroid, snacks, my 5 belts, empty credit card, Havilynn (she is coming with me)]]> 2020-03-19 03:05:12 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/465701028 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466235123 pg 21 " They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was to simply close the eyes and fall. So easy really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge unntil your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper that would roar and dip its nose and carry you off to the world. A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards." This passage is significant because it speaks of an inner thought that most everyone has probably had, but is never spoken about. This passage shows an enormous amount of depth in each of the characters, because you are shown just how easy it would be for each of them to give up, yet through it all, they carry on, and "No one falls" ]]> 2020-03-19 13:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466235123 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466248645 pg 4 "Her eyes were gray and neutral, her lips slightly open as she started straight on at the camera....And Martha was bent horizontal to the floor, reaching, the palms of her hands in sharp focus, the tongue taut, the expression frank and competitive." The use of rhetorical devices in this passage are primarily imagery. The overwhelming use of description not only gives the reader a better visual of Martha, but also reflects heavily onto Lieutenant Cross and how he feels about Martha. Because of the way she is described, we can assume that the descriptions given are primarily from his perspective. This imagery shifts the tone to more of a soft and vulnerable feeling.]]> 2020-03-19 13:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466248645 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466269123 I plan to take with me, My box of printed photos, a pillow, my wallet, my eno, a coffee mug and camera ]]> 2020-03-19 13:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466269123 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466479039 I will be bringing my cat (already worked things out, yay), photos that bring back prized memories, my books, a phone with which to keep in touch with loved ones, my aspirations for theatre, and the influence of my siblings.

]]> 2020-03-19 15:23:54 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466479039 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466650974 "He felt shame. He hated himself. He had loved Martha more than his men, and as a consequence Lavender was now dead, and this was something he would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of the war"(Page 16). This quote shows that it is so easy for someone's ties back to home can become obsessions that are unhealthy and ultimately detrimental to the task at hand, the war.]]> 2020-03-19 16:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466650974 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466662538 "What they carried varied by mission" (page 8). "The things they carried were determined to some extent by superstition" (page 12). O'Brian uses parallel structure to further entrench the point in our minds that there was always enormous physical and psychological weight on the troops. ]]> 2020-03-19 16:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466662538 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466668037 My clarinet, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, paper towels, my phone, and a Balvenie 12 year.]]> 2020-03-19 17:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466668037 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466726569 2020-03-19 17:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466726569 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466739429 "The things they carried were determined to some extent by superstition. Lieutenant Cross carried his good-luck pebble. Dave Jensen carried a rabbit's foot. Norman Bowker, otherwise a very gentle person, carried a thumb that had been presented to him as a gift by Mitchell Sanders. The thumb was dark brown, rubbery to the touch, and weighed 3 ounces at most. It had been cut from a VC corpse, a boy of fifteen or sixteen. They'd found him at the bottom of an irrigation ditch, badly burned, flies in his mouth and eyes. The boy wore black shorts and sandals. At the time of his death he had been carrying a pouch of rice, a rifle, and three magazines or ammunition." (page 13)
This was significant because it helps the reader understand the character development of each one of them. It's as if these objects are more deeply representative of each individual than can be seen with the naked eye.

]]> 2020-03-19 17:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466739429 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466764776 "Henry Dobbins asked what the moral was.
Moral?
You know. Moral.
Sanders wrapped the thumb in toilet paper and handed it across to Norman Bowker. There was no blood. Smiling, he kicked the boy's head, watched the flies scatter, and said, It's like with that old TV show -- Paladin. Have gun, will travel.
Henry Dobbins thought about it.
Yeah, well, he finally said. I don't see no moral." (page 13)
The slight use of imagery in this section when the author talks about kicking the boys' head and the flies scattering about makes it more clear to the reader that soldiers, no matter how much good they actually do for their countries, are still very ruthless and relentless in times. ]]> 2020-03-19 17:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466764776 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466770486 At least 2 fuzzy blankets, my weighted blanket, keepsake photos, my fuzzy crocs, my phone, Sessions is coming with me.

I would take my dog but they might kick me out. Idk man.]]> 2020-03-19 18:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466770486 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466771367 2020-03-19 18:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466771367 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466796358 2020-03-19 18:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466796358 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466800891 Talents, wisdom, work ethic, the Corona virus, AP Lang Virtual School Work, and my confidence.]]> 2020-03-19 18:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466800891 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466909476 "They'd run into each other, he said, at a college reunion in 1979. Nothing had changed. He still loved her." (page: 27) This quote stood out to me because it described a significance of Jimmy's feelings towards Martha. I feel it also introduces a possible recurring theme throughout the book. I think Martha has a deeper impact that we are not aware of past just being the love interest of jimmy. A possible motivation.]]> 2020-03-19 19:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/466909476 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467033853 "her eyes were grey and neutral" "The expression was frank and  competitive" "she wore white gym shorts" "Her legs were smooth with no hair-legs of a virgin" (page: 4)
This quote uses imagery to describe Martha in Jimmy's eyes and provide a image of her for our understanding. ]]> 2020-03-19 21:30:36 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467033853 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467045800 essential oils, heels, earbuds, phone, car, coffee. :))]]> 2020-03-19 21:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467045800 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467127240 "They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing—these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could never be
put down, it required perfect balance and perfect posture. They carried their reputations. They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment." pg 20
This quote in particular stood out to me because it points out an aspect of war that is not frequently examined, the burden of a mans reputation and his fear of dishonor. These men had little hopes of praise but rather feared being thought of as cowards. With the various tangible items they carried they also brought with them many internal burdens.]]> 2020-03-19 23:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467127240 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467146289 My Pride, My Gluttony, My Sloth, My Greed, My Wrath, My Anger, My Lust, and My Envy]]> 2020-03-20 00:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467146289 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467172740 "They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak. They carried infections. They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of
Conduct. They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery. They carried lice and ringworm and leeches and paddy algae and various rots and molds. They carried the land itself—Vietnam, the place, the soil—a powdery orange-red dust that covered their boots and fatigues
and faces. They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity." pg 14
Like much of Tim O'Brien's writing, this quote contains incredible imagery that situates the reader in the situations faced by the soldiers. ]]> 2020-03-20 01:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467172740 espilman7644 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467177480 I will be bringing my necklace that I always wear, copies of my top 5 favorite books, my desire to learn and succeed, my uncles shirt, my sketchbook and my Bible.]]> 2020-03-20 01:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467177480 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467178115 I'd bring my dog, good books, a water bottle, dove soap, earbuds, and my phone.]]> 2020-03-20 01:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467178115 sarahm00r3 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467520960 My phone, a great book series, blankets, computer, motivation and wisdom.]]> 2020-03-20 10:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/467520960 lkight8353 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/468231154 "He felt shame. He hated himself. He had loved Martha more than his men, and as a consequence Lavender was now dead, and this was something he would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of the war. All he could do was dig. He used his entrenching tool like an ax, slashing, feeling both love and hate" (pg. 16). I felt like this quote stood out to me because it gives a specific insight into the mind of a soldier during the Vietnam war in life or death situations such as these where death is constantly surrounding you. ]]> 2020-03-20 17:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/468231154 lkight8353 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/468251041 2020-03-20 17:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/468251041 lkight8353 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/468265821 2020-03-20 17:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/468265821 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/469350528 1)  My phone 
2)  A photo of my family
3)  My cross necklace
4)  Copies of my favorite books 
5)  My drive and passion (?)
6) My earbuds]]> 2020-03-22 03:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/469350528 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/469355557 This quote is significant because not only does it serve as a simple sentence, it states the obvious. The obvious being that in addition to carrying all of their baggage, they are carrying their lives by venturing into Vietnam. I think it serves to bring light to the obvious after so many pages of weighted objects each individual takes along with him. For some reason the simplicty of the quote really draws my attention in. Maybe it's bc im going insane?]]> 2020-03-22 03:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/469355557 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/469360918 The war wasn't all terror and violence. Sometimes things could almost get sweet. For instance, I remember a little boy with a plastic leg. I remember how he hopped over to Azar and asked for a chocolate bar—"GI number one," the kid said—and Azar laughed and handed over the chocolate. When the boy hopped away, Azar clucked his tongue and said, "War's a bitch." He shook his headsadly. "One leg,  for Chrissake. Some poor fucker ran out of ammo." (30)

O'Brien's use of a tone shift emphasizes the cruelity of the war by staring with a lighthearted tone talking about the little boy asking for a chocolate bar and shifts to Azar speaking of the sadness of the kid's leg being that he wasn't finished off, aka ran someone ran out of ammo.]]> 2020-03-22 03:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/469360918 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/469816716 "He was just a kid at war, in love. He was just twenty-four years old. He couldn't help it." pg. 12

I found this quote really interesting because I didn't realize how young Lieutenant Cross was, it really puts into perspective why he's more worried about Martha and his love life than the reality of the war. ]]> 2020-03-22 16:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/469816716 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/469847359 "As a big man, therefore a machine gunner, Henry Dobbins carried the
M-60, which weighed 23 pounds unloaded, but which was almost always loaded. In addition, Dobbins carried between 10 and 15 pounds of ammunition draped in belts across his chest and shoulders." pg. 5

I picked this quote for imagery. It creates a very vivid image in my head of Dobbins with a huge pack for all his things plus the ammunition that's across his chest and shoulders.]]> 2020-03-22 17:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/469847359 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/469857871 I would bring my phone and the charger, my favorite blanket, pictures of my friends and family, my wallet and candy]]> 2020-03-22 17:21:05 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/469857871 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470231824 "It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards." -Page 12
This quote shows the mindset of the soldiers not in just this platoon, but of many soldiers in Vietnam. I think it gives really good insight into how the soldiers view the war, each other, and their own lives, as they are driven to keep going and maintain an image of toughness on the outside even when they are terrified as they don't wont to be viewed as a coward, and for many this is all that keeps them going.]]> 2020-03-23 01:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470231824 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470235443 "Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak. They carried infections. They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct. They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery. They carried lice and ringworm and leeches and paddy algae and various rots and molds. They carried the land itself--Vietnam, the place, the soil--a powdery orange-red dust that covered their boots and fatigues and faces. They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity and monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity." -Page 14
Syntax: O'Brien uses repetition in this section to create an idea of all the literal and metaphorical weight these troops had to carry with and the difficulties they faced while in Vietnam. ]]> 2020-03-23 01:22:41 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470235443 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470240693 My knowledge from high school, my phone, my clothes, my signed picture of Jayson Tatum, a basketball, a soccer ball.]]> 2020-03-23 01:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470240693 sarahm00r3 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470244873 "And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are now. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story" (O'Brien, 36).
This quote stood out to me as an answer to the whole section we just read. Personally I see "stories" being represented as how they are what put the pieces together and come the closest to revealing all the questions. In this case this is how O'Brien answers the questions of his past, it's what all the memories are, what the past is.]]> 2020-03-23 01:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470244873 sarahm00r3 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470249991 "As a first lieutenant and platoon leader, Jimmy Cross carried a compass, maps, code books, binoculars, and a .45-caliber pistol that weighed 2.9 pounds fully loaded. He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men" (O'Brien, 5).
This quote contains military jargon, personally I don't know much about the military or the different types of guns so for people like me, it's difficult for us to understand what all this means.]]> 2020-03-23 01:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470249991 mkearns8980 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470253965 my phone, earrings, coffee machine, my docs, and my socks]]> 2020-03-23 02:00:19 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470253965 anovak8968 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470254048 2020-03-23 02:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470254048 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470255964 "To carry something was to hump it, as when Lieutenant Jimmy Cross
humped his love for Martha up the hills and through the swamps. In its
intransitive form, to hump meant to walk, or to march, but it implied
burdens far beyond the intransitive."  (O'brien, 3)
This quote is significant to the story because it explains how a lot of the soldiers felt. They created the word humped which meant carry, but it meant carry in a different way than just normal carrying. It meant carrying your emotions and feelings along with you as well.]]> 2020-03-23 02:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470255964 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470265381 Well, I am gonna take my earbuds, a laptop, a soccer ball, a skateboard, my clothes, and some of my good pens.]]> 2020-03-23 02:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470265381 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470266561 "They would often discard things along the route of march. Purely
for comfort, they would throw away rations, blow their Claymores and
grenades, no matter, because by nightfall the resupply choppers would
arrive with more of the same, then a day or two later still more, fresh
watermelons and crates of ammunition and sunglasses and woolen
sweaters—the resources were stunning—sparklers for the Fourth of July,
colored eggs for Easter—it was the great American war chest—the fruits
of science, the smokestacks, the canneries, the arsenals at Hartford, the
Minnesota forests, the machine shops, the vast fields of corn and wheat—
they carried like freight trains; they carried it on their backs and
shoulders—and 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." (O'brien, 15)
Syntax: This quote uses repetition to list off all of the resources that the soldiers would have to carry. It also has deeper meaning as well because it lists off the places these resources come from in America and says that the soldiers carried them as well. This is alluding to the fact that they are defending these places. ]]> 2020-03-23 02:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470266561 mkearns8980 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470292876 "the bad stuff never stops happening replaying itself over and over. But the war wasn't all that way." pg. 31

Representing the burden of war and the lifelong trauma many military members have after war. Individuals carry their experiences from war for the rest of their lives. Manifesting into the emotional struggle that many veterans face.]]> 2020-03-23 03:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470292876 mkearns8980 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470312409 "they used hard the vocabulary to contain the terrible-softness. Greased they say.offed, lit-up zapped while zapping." pg 19

Using diction such as jargon to demonstrate how they communicated with one another. They used these terms as a way to communicate complicated situations and it was collectively understood. For example, when Ted Lavender died they all reacted saying something casual and yet inside all were grieving]]> 2020-03-23 04:10:47 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/470312409 psolesbee4900 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/471487140 on page 31
"The bad stuff never stops happening, replaying itself over and over again"

This quote showed a significance to me because my uncle was in the military and him and his battalion did things that were of cores ordered but he say the stuff that happened is on constant loop in his head and its really sad and heart breaking to here. ]]> 2020-03-23 18:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/471487140 psolesbee4900 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/471492984 1- my favorite blanket
2- my cats 
3- hopefully my chickens 
4-my phone
5- my box of family pictures
6- my ps4]]> 2020-03-23 18:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/471492984 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/480738530 "Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment" (Chapter 1). 
I think this is significant because I've heard of a lot of soldiers falling into deep depression and grief when they come our of a war while their friends died. The feeling of grief and "embarrassment" comes from feeling like they didn't try hard enough or they that they could've done more. It also brings a sense of confusion as to why they lived and someone else who they felt worked harder didn't survive. ]]> 2020-03-29 17:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/480738530 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/480749817 “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories.
O'Brien talks about how the trauma soldiers carry with them for the rest of their lives and during the war is much more than just physical, "tangible" aspects. It extents to "emotional baggage" as well, that can't be as easily explained. ]]> 2020-03-29 17:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/480749817 https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/480759074 My phone, my dog, Rainey, headphones, my water bottle, and my snail. ]]> 2020-03-29 17:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_clare/q0l93hwvxb6x/wish/480759074