Kathryn O'Shaughnessy’s Reviews > The Things They Carried > Status Update

also this was wild
Even as i write this, i can still feel that tightness. And i want you to feel it—the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You’re at the bow of a boat on the rainy river. You’re twenty-one years old, you’re scared, and there’s a hard squeezing pressure in your chest.

Boom baby so good

You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don’t care for obscenity, you don’t care for the truth; if you don’t care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty

All that peace, man, it felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back

Read in high school and wanting to reread. Things i have to track so far:
SOP = standard operating procedure
Dave Jensen= clean freak
Henry Dobbins = fat
Jimmy Cross= lieutenant and obsessed w Martha
Ted Lavender = anxious and dead