#17 War itself

The Things They Carried is a novel written about war. On almost every page it talks about this event. Fights, misunderstandings, and wars happen all over the world and have for many centuries. While reading this book, I discovered that the events happening in the book are happening in our lives today. The fallen heroes in the book are just like the fallen heroes in the wars past. This book is not all true, but in a way it seems as if it could be. The writer titles his main character his exact same name. He speaks of Vietnam and we all know the Vietnam War. We know of the deaths and the victories. War is a sad and scary thing. Losing people close to you is one of the hardest things someone will endure. In the book, Curt Lemon, Ted Lavender, Kiowa and others were killed. It hits hard knowing that those things are happening to our troops today.