5/13/2023 0 Comments Sister soldier life after death![]() The jungle is spooky, and the men start hearing strange, eerie noises which become an opera, a glee club, chanting, and so on, but the voices they hear are not human. A patrol goes into the mountains for a weeklong operation to monitor enemy movement. O'Brien offers readers the advice that they should be skeptical, and offers a story told to him by Mitchell Sanders as an example. He comments that in true stories it is difficult to distinguish what actually happened from what seemed to happen, again blurring the line between truth and story. O'Brien remembers body parts strewn in the jungle trees and thinks about his own memories of the event. Lemon's death, an accident resulting from a game of catch with a grenade, is described in detail. ![]() O'Brien suggests that Lemon's sister's failure to return the letter offers a kind of sad and true moral to the story. The sister never writes back, and Rat is offended and angered, as the reader is left to infer as the sister never returns the letter. Rat believes the letter is poignant and personal however, from Lemon's sister's viewpoint, it is inappropriate and disturbing. ![]() Rat's letter talks about her brother and the crazy stunts he attempted. ![]() O'Brien offers a story about Rat Kiley that he assures his readers is true: Rat's friend, Curt Lemon, is killed, and Rat writes Lemon's sister a letter. ![]()
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