The Things They Carried

I was the young girl who came over to see her boyfriend and eventually fell in love with Vietnam and become one with the land.

• Martha

• Linda

• Mary Anne

• Kathleen

I offered Tim 200 dollars and the opportunity to escape to Canada when we went fishing in my boat.

• Elroy Berdahl

• Rat Kiley

• Bobby Jorgenson

• Henry Dobbins

I played Volleyball at Mount Sebastian and wrote letters to Jimmy

• Mrs. Cross

• Martha

• Mary Anne

• Linda

I was the new medic and Tim O Brien and Azar played a mean trick on me while I was standing my post one night.

• Bob Kiley

• Bobby Jorgenson

• Norman Bowker

• Lee Strunk

I am insensitive and unsympathetic to several dead bodies

throughout the story. I also make fun of a young Vietnamese girl.

• Lee Strunk

• Kiowa

• Azar

• Norman Bowker

I carried around a “New Testament” bible with me and

lost my life in the sewage field.

• Azar

• Tim

• Mitchel Sanders

• Kiowa

I was killed while playing a game of catch with a grenade. Tim had to pick pieces of me out of a tree.

• Ted Lavender

• Curt Lemon

• Lee Strunk

• Rat Kiley

Dave Jensen breaks my nose because I stole his jackknife.

• Azar

• Norman Bowker

• Lee Strunk

• Kiowa

My real name is Bob. I was the platoon’s first medic

• Rat Kiley

• Bobby Jorgenson

• Dave Jenson

• Curt Lemon

I snuck my girlfriend into Vietnam. She ended up leaving me for Green Berets.

• Mark Fosse

• Rat Kiley

• Tim O'Brien

• Eddie Diamond