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I teach a novel in my literature class, Tim O Brien s
The Things They Carried, that is widely regarded as one of the finest pieces of writing about warfare and the life of a soldier ever written, at least in the English language. The novel is a collection of metafictional short stories that blur the line between the author s actual lived experiences as a soldier in Vietnam and the fictions he has invented to try and communicate the painful truths of what it is like to be a young man sent to fight in a war. The first story, also titled “The Things They Carried”, focuses on the soldiers of Alpha Company, and particularly how all of them are shaken by the sudden and random death of their squadmate, Ted Lavender, who is shot in the head while taking a piss outside the small village of Than Ke. One of the soldiers, Kiowa, summarizes the shock that comes from seeing your friend s life extinguished in an instant, along with the eerie, pointless banality that distinguishes so many wart
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What It Was Really Like As A Medic In The Vietnam War Public Domain
By Natasha Lavender/Jan. 27, 2021 3:32 pm EDT
The Vietnam War has become infamous for the brutal battles fought and lost in the impenetrable heat and claustrophobic thickness of the jungle. Following American soldiers into the line of fire, hoping to prevent them from becoming yet more casualties, were their medics.
Medics trained alongside other troops, but their job in the field was to patch up their comrades when the bullet, grenade, or shell with their name on it found its target. Without body armor or even bulletproof helmets, medics were in as much danger as their comrades and sometimes more. While soldiers could hunker down during bombardments, the medic ran towards the enemy to find the wounded, often with little more than a few bandages, some morphine, and a pair of blunt scissors, and little to no medical training.
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