He was shot though the head in Vietnam- "He fell like a sack of potatoes."
Who is Ted Lavender
"They marched for the sake of the march. They plodded along slowly, dumbly, leaning forward against the heat, unthinking, all blood and bone, simple grunts, soldiering with their legs, toiling up the hills and down into the paddies and across the river and up again and down, just humping"
Who is Tim O'Brien?
He wore his ex-girlfriends pantyhose around his neck for good luck
Who is Henry Dobbins?
Five men had to pull his body out of thick mud from a village latrine.
Who is Kiowa?
The main theme in the chapter "How to Tell a True War Story", when Mitchell Sanders tells a story concerning soldiers getting so paranoid listening on patrol that they start to hear strange noises
What is loneliness/isolation?
"Did you ever kill anybody?"
Who is Kathleen?
Theme of the chapter "The Man I Killed", when O'Brien kills a young japanese man with a grenade
What is guilt?
"We got ourselves a nice mellow war today."
Who is Ted Lavender?
What are characteristics of a true war story? (pick one)
What is never ending, never about war, difficult to separate what really happened from what seemed to happen, and cannot be believed?
"Hear that quiet, man? That quiet, just listen. There's your moral."
Who is Mitchell Sanders?