Blog 3 The Things they Carried

In the story, "The Things they Carried," it depicts an inside look at a US soldiers mind while fighting a war in Vietnam. US troops all carried their standish issue weapons and equipment to fight in combat but it was the personal items they had that gave the reader an inside look on who they really were. In the story the reader sees things through the eyes of a young Lieutenant Cross. He describes things that his men brought with them from extra rations and bibles to dope and hatchets. The main thing they carried that weighed more than any of their equipment was the fear of death, but mostly the fear of being a cowered. The men were essentially willing to die before they would be seen as a cowered.