Paths of Things They Carried by SK SK https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2 of the Song Tra Bong en-us 2020-08-25 01:29:08 UTC 2025-12-06 14:24:57 UTC hello@padlet.com ...in a sense she never returned. Not all of her. kingerzexpress https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/696313300 p108]]> 2020-08-25 01:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/696313300 They had no sense of strategy or mission kingerzexpress https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/696315703 p14]]> 2020-08-25 01:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/696315703 often they carried each other, the wounded or the weak. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698809205 p14]]> 2020-08-25 23:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698809205 For Mary Anne Bell, it seemed, Vietnam had the effect of a powerful drug: that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure that comes as the needle slips in and you know you're risking something. The endorphins start to flow, and the adrenaline, and you hold your breath and creep quietly through the moonlit nightscapes; you become intimate with danger https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698809689 p115

]]> 2020-08-25 23:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698809689 "Whenever he looked at the photographs, he thought of new things he should have done." https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698810265 p5]]> 2020-08-25 23:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698810265 "Mary Anne wasn't afraid to get her hands bloody. At times, in fact, she seemed fascinated by it." https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698811595 p102]]> 2020-08-25 23:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698811595 In-between 'fiction and reality' https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698812457 2020-08-25 23:16:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698812457 It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698812473 p89]]> 2020-08-25 23:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698812473 men killed, and died, https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698814636 2020-08-25 23:18:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698814636 "They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die." https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698814765 p19]]> 2020-08-25 23:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698814765 'couldn't burn the blame' https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698815335 p21]]> 2020-08-25 23:18:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698815335 At the girls throat there was a necklace of human tongues. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698815404 p112]]> 2020-08-25 23:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698815404 "your in a place" maryanne said softely "where you dont belong". she moved her hand in a gesture that encompassed not just the hootch but everything around it, the entire war... https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698820574 p ??]]> 2020-08-25 23:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698820574 He would sometimes taste the envelope flaps, knowing her tongue had been there. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698820886 p3]]> 2020-08-25 23:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698820886 You come over clean and you get dirty and then afterward it's never the same. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698821301 p115]]> 2020-08-25 23:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698821301 'Do something,' he whispered. ' I can't just let her go like that.' Rat listened for a time, then shook his head. 'Man you must be deaf. Shes already gone.' https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698821716 p114]]> 2020-08-25 23:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698821716 "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." https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698822518 p14]]> 2020-08-25 23:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698822518 it was a war, and the war went on. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698827257 p116]]> 2020-08-25 23:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698827257 But Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried 34 rounds when he was shot and killed outside Than Khe, and he went down under an exceptional burden, more than 20 pounds of ammunition, plus the flak jacket and helmet and rations and water and toilet paper and tranquilizers and all the rest, plus the unweighted fear. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698830047 p7]]> 2020-08-25 23:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698830047 "She was part of the land. She was wearing her culottes, her pink sweater and her necklace of human tongues. She was dangerous. She was ready for the kill." https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698830090 p.117]]> 2020-08-25 23:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698830090 "They carried their own lives, the pressures were enormous." https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698832501 p.14

]]> 2020-08-25 23:33:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698832501 This seventeen-year-old doll...like a cheerleader kingerzexpress https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698832709 p101]]> 2020-08-25 23:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698832709 it was like watching a rock fall, or a big sandbag or something - just boom, then down - not like the movies where the dead guy rolls around and does fancy spins and goes ass over teakettle - not like that, Kiowa said, the poor bastard just flat-fuck fell. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698835287 p7]]> 2020-08-25 23:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698835287 Afterward they burned Than Khe https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698838831 p7]]> 2020-08-25 23:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698838831 They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698841665 p8]]> 2020-08-25 23:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698841665 Lieutenant Cross carried his good luck pebble. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698851037 P.12]]> 2020-08-25 23:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698851037 They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698852509 2020-08-25 23:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698852509 she had found the pebble on the Jersey shoreline, precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698956794 p8]]> 2020-08-26 01:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698956794 though it was painful, he wondered who had been with her that afternoon. He imagined a pair of shadows moving along the strip of sand where things came together but also separated. It was phantom jealousy. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698960430 p9]]> 2020-08-26 01:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698960430 they took turns humping a 28 pound mine detector. ... the equipment was a stress on the lower back and shoulders... but they carried it anyways, partly for safety, partly for the illusion of safety. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698965020 p9]]> 2020-08-26 01:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698965020 They all carried ghosts. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698971840 p10]]> 2020-08-26 01:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698971840 whoever drew the number 17 would strip off his gear and crawl in headfirst with a flashlight and Lieutenant Cross's .45-caliber pistol. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698976323 p10]]> 2020-08-26 01:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698976323 the waiting was worse than the tunnel itself. Imagination was a killer. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698979550 p11]]> 2020-08-26 01:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698979550 He was just a kid at war, in love. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698984788 p12]]> 2020-08-26 01:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698984788 Norman Bowker, otherwise a very gentle person, carried a thumb https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698990254 p12]]> 2020-08-26 01:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698990254 They shared the weight of memory. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698993398 p13]]> 2020-08-26 01:33:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698993398 it was just the endless march, village to village, without purpose, nothing won or lost. They marched for the sake of the march. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698995846 p14]]> 2020-08-26 01:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698995846 the hump was everything, a kind of inertia, a kind of emptiness, a dullness of desire and intellect and conscience and hope and human sensibility. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698998859 p14]]> 2020-08-26 01:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/698998859 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. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699002013 p15]]> 2020-08-26 01:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699002013 He felt shame. He hated himself. ... this was something he would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of the war. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699004380 p15]]> 2020-08-26 01:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699004380 She belonged to another world, which was not quite real, https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699008800 p15]]> 2020-08-26 01:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699008800 He wished he could find some great sadness, or even anger, but the emotion wasn't there and he couldn't make it happen. Mostly he felt pleased to be alive. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699012339 p16-17]]> 2020-08-26 01:46:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699012339 Now and then, however, there were times of panic, when they squealed and 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. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699021376 p17]]> 2020-08-26 01:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699021376 It was the burden of being alive. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699022744 p17]]> 2020-08-26 01:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699022744 They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699024594 p18]]> 2020-08-26 01:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699024594 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. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699026494 p18]]> 2020-08-26 01:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699026494 as if the repetition itself were an act of poise, a balance between crazy and almost crazy https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699029851 p19]]> 2020-08-26 02:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699029851 Grief, terror, love, longing - these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699033510 p19]]> 2020-08-26 02:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699033510 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 https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699039282 p19]]> 2020-08-26 02:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699039282 They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699042233 p19]]> 2020-08-26 02:09:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699042233 It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of GLORY or honour, just to avoid the blush of dishonour. They died so as not to die of embarassent. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699044968 p19]]> 2020-08-26 02:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699044968 They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699049801 p19]]> 2020-08-26 02:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699049801 Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699051480 p19]]> 2020-08-26 02:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699051480 By and large they carried these things inside, maintaining the mask of composure. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699053993 p20]]> 2020-08-26 02:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699053993 where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing - Gone! they screamed, I'm sorry but I'm gone! - and so at night, not quite dreaming, they gave themselves over to lightness, they were carried, they were purely borne. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699058367 p20]]> 2020-08-26 02:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699058367 He was a soldier, after all. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699064374 p21]]> 2020-08-26 02:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699064374 No more fantasies, he told himself ... He would shut down the daydreams. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699065453 p22]]> 2020-08-26 02:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699065453 Boom-down, and you were dead, never partly dead. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699066830 p22]]> 2020-08-26 02:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699066830 He would accept the blame for what had happened to Ted Lavender. He would be a man about it. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699068858 p22]]> 2020-08-26 02:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699068858 Lieutenant Jimmy Cross reminded himself that his obligation was not to be loved but to lead. He would dispense with love; it was not now a factor. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699071664 p23]]> 2020-08-26 02:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699071664 Vietnam was full of strange stories, some improbable, some well beyond that, but the stories that will last forever are those that swirl back and forth across the border between trivia and bedlam, the mad and the mundane. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699074576 p95]]> 2020-08-26 02:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699074576 "... I mean, you can't import your own personal poontang." https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699079484 p96]]> 2020-08-26 02:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699079484 [on trauma care] It was gory work, Rat said, but predictable. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699081637 p96]]> 2020-08-26 02:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699081637 The Greenies were not social animals. Animals, Rat said, but far from social. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699084073 p97]]> 2020-08-26 02:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/699084073 While the outpost was isolated and vulnerable, Eat said, he always felt a curious sense of safety there. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/713472206 p97]]> 2020-09-01 23:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/713472206 'Look, if you think about it,' he said, 'it's not that crazy. You could actually do it.' https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/713476615 p98]]> 2020-09-01 23:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/713476615 The girl seemed tired and somewhat lost, but she smiled. https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/713481201 p99]]> 2020-09-01 23:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/713481201 'A cinch,' Fossie said, and gazed down at his pretty girlfriend. 'Thing is, you just got to want it enough.' https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/713483782 p99]]> 2020-09-01 23:41:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/713483782 'I'm here,' she'd say, 'I might as well learn something.' https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/716697749 p100]]> 2020-09-03 01:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kingerzexpress/ypr6kw2rj42lhxc2/wish/716697749