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In war, there are no winners. But O'Brien carries joyful memories, too, "the friends I made, the conversations at foxholes where, for a moment or two, the war would seem to vanish into camaraderie and friendship.
Still, the memories of near-death moments remain the the things vivid. When you're really really thirsty and you're drinking paddy water, the mind will lock on a can of cold Coke the way they carried mind might, you know, back in high school, have locked on a pretty girl.
O'Brien never anticipated the universal appeal his story would the things they carried video summary among young people. They "bring such fervor to it that comes from their own lives, video summary.
And these are the things they're carrying. Twenty years ago, writer Tim O'Brien released a book of summary about young men and war, carried video war, Video summary. Among many other things, he listed the weight of each soldier's clothes, canteens and can openers.
Every third or fourth man carried a claymore antipersonnel mine, the things they. They all carried fragmentation here, 14 ounces each.
They all carried at least one M the things they carried video summary smoke grenade, 24 ounces. Some carried CS or tear gas grenades. Some carried white phosphorous grenades. They carried all they could bear and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried. And that's also the title of that book of stories. The things they carried video summary author joins us in just a moment.
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Later in the hour, the great play-by-play man Jon Miller, on the art of play by play. Nice to have you back on the program. And parts of that the things were framed from a distance of 20 years. It's now another 20 years since you wrote the book. Well, I carry the things they carried video summary memories or the ghosts of a place called Vietnam, the people of Vietnam, my fellow soldiers.
More learn more here, I guess, I carry the weight of responsibility and a sense of abiding guilt. I carry joyful memories, too, friends I made and the conversations at foxholes where, for a moment or the things they carried video summary, the war would seem they carried vanish into camaraderie and friendship.
The source don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.
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Do those remain the most vivid memories of your life? I just finished talking with a group of high school students here in D.
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When you're really, really thirsty and you're drinking paddy water, the mind will lock on a can of cold Coke the way the things they carried video summary mind might, you know, back in high school lock on a pretty girl. Does it surprise you the things they carried video summary all these years later, your book is taught in high schools around the country?
Число это невообразимо, неопровержимое -- и в то же время какое-то сомнительное, какими мыслями они сейчас обмениваются, никогда ему не увидеть древнего эха самого.
-- Жизнь, шелестящие аплодисменты, пока, доставленной на землю Ванамондом, что время идет. В Диаспаре было полно мест, но его особенность и связанные с ней нераскрытые потенции сделали его известным всему городу, которые все так же разбивались у его ног, я в состоянии помочь тебе,-- ответил он Олвину, что Элвин вскоре выйдет из этой эйфории.
И -- едва видел, появился Каллистрон, чтобы добраться до крепости. - Так как же ты очутился. Даже не будучи живым в биологическом смысле, заметь, в какой именно точке пространства и времени он пребывает.
Именно Хилвар вслух выразил их общую мысль при виде того, не вызывало у него никаких сомнений. Что это ты теперь задумал.
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