![]() ![]() I just finished talking with a group of high school students here in D.C., and the conversation eventually got to just that question. ![]() Do those remain the most vivid memories of your life? They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.ĬONAN: In some ways, you write how the experience of being close to death so often made things extremely vivid. The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. I carry joyful memories, too, friends I made and the conversations at foxholes where, for a moment or two, the war would seem to vanish into camaraderie and friendship. More importantly, I guess, I carry the weight of responsibility and a sense of abiding guilt. ![]() O'BRIEN: Well, I carry the memories or the ghosts of a place called Vietnam, the people of Vietnam, my fellow soldiers. It's now another 20 years since you wrote the book. TIM O'BRIEN (Author, "The Things They Carried"): Great to be here, thanks.ĬONAN: And parts of that book were framed from a distance of 20 years. But first, novelist and National Book Award winner Tim O'Brien joins us here in Studio 3A. Later in the hour, the great play-by-play man Jon Miller, on the art of play by play. Email us, You can also join the conversation on our Web site. What did you carry? What do you still carry? Tell us your story. "The Things They Carried" is now a staple of college and high school English classes, celebrated as one of the most important books about the experience of war. They carried all they could bear and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.Īnd that's also the title of that book of stories. They all carried at least one M-18 colored smoke grenade, 24 ounces. They all carried fragmentation grenades, 14 ounces each. Among many other things, he listed the weight of each soldier's clothes, canteens and can openers.įrom the book: Every third or fourth man carried a claymore antipersonnel mine, 3.5 pounds with its firing device. Twenty years ago, writer Tim O'Brien released a book of stories about young men and war, his war, Vietnam. ![]()
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