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Vietnam was a horrible time for many Americans and a lot of them paid for it in many ways. Until we understand how and why this war could have been prevented then we are in danger of repeating this all over again. In this book Tim O'Brien describes just how bad o ....

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.... a lot of lives were taken in Vietnam and there were also a lot of hardships that many people faced and some still do to this day. Tim O'Brien, like many Americans was drafted into the war in the 1960's. He was a college graduate from a small town in Minnesota. I could not imagine graduating college and then being asked to fight in some war that you could care less about. Tim made it through boot camp and he was sent off to war. At one point he even thought about going AWOL. That idea was changed as he sat in a Seattle hotel room and decided to stick it out and go off to Vietnam. Many soldiers went AWOL, either over in Vietnam or in the Sta ....