The Things They Carried

T his article was very interesting. It was clearly reading someones thoughts that a person couldn't have comprehended and written down if they haven't been there.

  The story of his friend Riley was very personal to him yet intact enough and on a personal level to him content and in peace enough to write down.  From what i understood , from what he wrote about the truth of a story isn't black and white. The truth is different to different people. If a few people see or participate in the same exact thing the truth is going to be different to each person. For him because he loved his friend who died it was a spiritual experience, to the enemy it was a victory to a person in the army who didn't know him it was  a beware sign yet that is all the truth which is a sad fact. At the end if the day it was a human beings life that was cut too short