The Things They Carried A major war in American History was the Vietnam War. It affected the lives of many soldiers and families. Vietnam was a war that took many innocent lives in horror but with each life there was a story. Each soldier handled the war a different way and the war changed every man that went to Vietnam. Tim O’Brien in the novel The Things They Carried, expresses how the war affected …showed first 75 words of 624 total…

…showed last 75 words of 624 total…during this trip, which was an extremely rocky road. Vietnam might have taken Tim O’Brien because of what he went through during and after. Vietnam changed the lives of many. It affected feelings and took many lives. Weather it was all worth all the lose depends on from person to person. Tim O’ Brien shared his stories and reality maybe to open our eyes and realize that life is more precious than we think.