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Re: Interview Vietnam Veteran For Honors Engilsh

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On Wed Nov 4, Perrin wrote
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>Hi im a sophmore at moundsview high school in minnesota and i need to ask a vietnam veteran 10 questions about the war for honors engilsh since were reading The Things They Carried by Tim O'brian which is a book about the war so if anyone could help that would be great.

>1.How did you feel about going to war?
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I didn't want to kill anyone and wasn't sure how I would react.
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>2.Did you agree with the purpose of the war?
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Mostly
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>3.What were your faimly/friends reactions when you got home?
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They were releaved and happy I was home.
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>4.How did you handle coming home and adjusting to everyday life?
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I'm still learning to adjust.
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>5.How did the war affect you as a person?
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I'm a bigger person that I would have been without the experience.
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>6.What memories do you have from the war? What can't you forget?
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I was a point man in a combat infantry unit. Most of my memories are filled with violence and loss of friends.
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>7.How did you first react to all the death and killing?
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I was in shock, it wasn't the game we played as children. People didn't get up after being shot, the blood was real and people were shooting bullets really trying to kill me.
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>8.Did you lose a friend during the war? How did you react?
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Many - I felt guilty for surviving for years. I shut down my emotions so I cold keep going.
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>9.How was Vietnam differnt from the United States?(terrian,cultur,ect...)

Everything was different. We were foregners in a completely foreign country.
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>10.Is there anything you did during the war that you regret?

Regret leads to depression, I can't change anything that happened so I no longer go there.

>Thanks For Helping.

Thu Nov 5

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