https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/g-s1-46567/how-a-military-recruitment-crisis-is-leaving-the-u-s-vulnerable
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/10/the-us-militarys-recruiting-crisis
Hi, I just wanted to post this because I thought it was interesting to learn more about the U.S. military. I just finished reading, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (2009)
Just wanted to say, the chapters On the Rainy River, and Speaking of Courage were very beautiful and emotionally powerful.
About the book:
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing.
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