Email
Like
Liked ×
Save
Private Content
Embed
Loading embed code…
We have emailed the verification/download link to "".
Login to your email and click the link to download the file directly.

To request the link at a different email address, update it here. Close
Validation messages. Success message. Fail message.

Check your bulk/spam folders if you can't find our mail.
Loading

+ Follow

Things carried photo essay

by MsRae

85 views

Accessibility

View text version

Upload Details

Uploaded via SlideShare as Adobe PDF

Usage Rights

© All Rights Reserved

File a copyright complaint

Statistics

Likes: 0
Downloads: 1
Comments: 0
Embed Views: 0
Views on SlideShare: 85
Total Views: 85

Things carried photo essay Presentation Transcript

For the most part they carried themselves with poise, a kind of dignity.
Now and then, however, there were :mes of panic, when they squealed or wanted to squeal but couldn’t
when they twitched or made moaning sounds and covered their heads
and said Dear Jesus and ﬂopped around on the earth
and ﬁred their weapons blindly
and cringed and sobbed and begged for the noise to stop
and went wild WATERBOARDINGinVIETNAM
and made stupid promises to themselves and to God
and to their mothers and fathers, hoping not to die.
It was the burden of being alive. (19)