The things they carried!!

In the book "The things they carried" the author a former military veteran from the Vietnam conflict tells the readers of his and his unit’s experiences and journeys through there tour in Vietnam as well as specific event in his life. The author breaks the book down into separate sections focusing on one individual person at a time, he gives each man from his unit a section as well as each life event a section of the book all it’s own. The authors book helps the readers realize how hard the Vietnam war was or how hard any war is and helps the experiences of him and his unit during the war live on in eternity. This book helps readers appreciate what the author went through and experienced in the conflict when he was asked to serve his country in it's time of need. This book gives a detailed representation of the inner-struggle that an individual has to suffer through in deciding if they should accept the cards they where dealt, in this case the draft card or run-off and hide in a different country because they do not want to fight or die. I think that each individual person that reads this book can find a moral or value that they can take away from it and help better there own lives with. Whether it is that people have to make sacrifices when there called upon or if it helps people appreciate the sacrifices others make for them to help keep them free.