In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. Everyone who enters a war zone comes away with scars. They may not be visible, they may not be physical. But no one comes home with all of their pieces intact. In fact, it may even be possible that those with physical injuries have it easier. They get sympathy. They get the parades. It’s the soldiers who come home with invisible wounds whose tempers grow short, have difficulty working again at a regular job, and turn to alcohol and drugs to dull the pain. In getting to know the characters in “The Things They Carried”, we see that no matter how pure, kind-hearted, or wholesome a man was when he boarded the plane to Vietnam he’s still turned into a killer before its time to go back home. Even Mary-Anne can’t hold her grip on reality. She enters the story as the very picture of the American dream-girl. She’s beautiful and feminine, pure and sweet. But then she arrives in Vietnam and within just a few weeks, she goes crazy. See? Everything has it in them, it just takes a catalyst to draw it out:
Maybe Your Crazy
Maybe We're Crazy
Probably
(Artist conception)
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