https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq en-us 2016-09-23 16:53:06 UTC 2017-04-21 16:27:12 UTC hello@padlet.com smith_a74 https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq/wish/126078148 Description: He's the author and was a soldier in the Vietnam war. He's white and lived in Minnesota.
Quotes: "...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, and my presence was guilt enough"(171).
Tim O'Brien witnessed people getting killed in Vietnam. He later states that he didn't actually kill anyone, but since he witnessed it, he felt guilty. This shows that he feels bad about what happened during the war.
"In June of 1968, a month after graduating from Macalester College, I was drafted to fight a war I hated"(38).Tim O'Brien didn't want to fight in the Vietnam War, yet after fighting in it, he has made a career out of writing about his experiences.]]> 2016-09-23 16:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq/wish/126078148 smith_a74 https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq/wish/126448880 Description: He was the one in charge of Tim O'Brien and his unit. He had a crush on a girl outside of the war.
Quotes: "On the morning after Ted Lavender died, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross crouched at the bottom of his foxhole and burned Martha's letters"(22). 
Jimmy Cross is in charge and he often feels guilty when something goes wrong with the men he leads.
"Mitchell Sanders shook his head. 'Just mess things up. Besides, the man looks happy out there, real content. Let him be.'"
The guys in the platoon feel as if Jimmy Cross is incompetent as the leader.]]> 2016-09-26 17:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq/wish/126448880 smith_a74 https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq/wish/126736054 Description: Kiowa is a Native American soldier in the Vietnam War. He died.
Quotes: "]]> 2016-09-27 16:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq/wish/126736054 smith_a74 https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq/wish/126736148 Description: Norman Bowker was a soldier with Tim O'Brien. After the war he became depressed and killed himself.
Quotes:"...Norman Bowker, who three years later hanged himself in the locker room of a YMCA in his hometown in central Iowa"(149)
After the war, Norman Bowker felt that he had no purpose in life, so he killed himself.
"'Well, maybe not. But I had the chance and I blew it. The stink, that's what got to me. I couldn't take that goddamn awful smell.'"
Norman Bowker blamed himself for Kiowa's death, and he felt bad about it even after it happened.]]> 2016-09-27 16:38:58 UTC https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq/wish/126736148 smith_a74 https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq/wish/127036774 Description: Kiowa was a Native American that was in Tim O'Brien's platoon. He was religious.
Quotes: "Kiowa saying, 'No choice Tim. What else could you do?"(36)
Kiowa is trying to help Tim O'Brien get over the fact that he killed a guy, showing he's a nice guy.
"'It's bad news' Kiowa said. 'You don't mess with churches'"(113)
Kiowa was religious and it is shown in this quote when he says that the soldiers shouldn't stay in the church.]]> 2016-09-28 16:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq/wish/127036774 smith_a74 https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq/wish/127036952 2016-09-28 16:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/smith_a74/sp0a2kyv0brq/wish/127036952