ABDUCTED BY VIETNAM It has been estimated that over 2 million people died in the Vietnam War, and an additional 3.6 million were wounded. These staggering numbers give some example of the terrible bloodshed each individual soldier either witnessed or participated in on a daily basis. The Things They Carried, a captivating collection of Vietnam War stories written by Tim O’Brien, gives readers a closer, more personalized look at what happened in Vietnam through the eyes …showed first 75 words of 773 total…

…showed last 75 words of 773 total…war’s brutality were flipped completely upside down, that is, changed so drastically that they were almost a different individual. It is hard to imagine such a cruel twist of fate, something perhaps comparable to being abducted by aliens who alter their victim’s mind so they aren’t the same person, yet not completely someone else, and who then drop the victim back into their normal life to resume living as before. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**