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Essay heading: The Things They Carried
 
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In the chapter "On The Rainy River," O'Brien received a draft letter for the Vietnam War. He was in shock, "I was too good for this war. Too smart, too compassionate, to everything. It couldn't happen. I was above it. A mistake, maybe?a foul up in the paperwork. I was no soldier? I remember the rage in my stomach...
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He was in shock, "I was too good for this war. Too smart, too compassionate, to everything. It couldn't happen. I was above it. A mistake, maybe?a foul up in the paperwork. I was no soldier? I remember the rage in my stomach. Later it burned down to a smoldering self-pity, then to numbness" (41-42). Obviously, O'Brien did not want to go to war...
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