ething brand-new and profound, a
             piece of the world so startling there was not yet a name for it" (79).
             These words are powerful because they are not just telling us what
             happenedâ€"when we red it, we can almost feel the horror.
             Additionally, Tim O'Brien describes the angst carried within each
             soldier from day to day. "They carried all the emotional baggage of men
             who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but
             the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible
             weight" (21). O'Brien seizes the ultimate truth connected with the Vietnam
             War when he writes that the soldiers had "no sense of strategy or mission"
             (15). O'Brien's technique focuses primarily on the soldiers he knew. His
             stories hardly mention the Vietnamese. In addition, he never really gives
             us a physical description of the soldiers at all. We are spared any of
             those facts so that the only things we focus on are the
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