Characters
Original Medic
Rat Kiley
hatchet
Kiowa
What does he receive in June of '68?
Kiowa
Shell fire/ mortar fire while camped out in the village toilet. Sank under the muck.
Nickname for the soldiers.
grunts
Circles a lake for hours.
Norman Bowker
pebble from the Jersey shoreline
Jimmy Cross
Where does he work before the war?
Armour meat-packing plant as a pig declotter.
Ted Lavender
Shot in the head on the way back from peeing.
Nickname for the enemy
Charlie
Machine gunner who carries extra ammunition.
Henry Dobbins
tranquilizers and dope
Ted Lavender
This man helped Tim face a tough decision.
Elroy Berdahl (owner of the Tip Top Lodge)
Curt Lemon
Stepped on a land mine (booby trap).
Troops were sent to Vietnam to prevent what?
communism
Continually plays scenes in his mind of a dead man with a "star-shaped hole."
Tim O'Brien
comic books
Rat Kiley
O'Brien believes that people who support a war should have to do what?
Fight in it or have family who fights in it. They should experience the front lines.
Norman Bowker
Suicide- hangs himself at his hometown YMCA.
Many returning veterans had which disorder?
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Goes on a night ambush with the greenies (Green Berets).
Mary Anne Bell
stockings (pantyhose) around his neck
Henry Dobbins
When he is contemplating fleeing to Canada, what hallucinations/ visions does O'Brien see along the shoreline?
Friends, family, townspeople, senators, etc. cheering for him and calling to him.
Lee Strunk
Leg blown off. Dies on way to hospital.
In what year did our country finally have a welcome home parade for Veterans?
1985