The story, "The Things They Carried," by Tim O'Brien, is available as a pdf file viewable in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you need the reader, click the button:This reading is taken from O'Brien's novel of the same title, The Things They Carried. New York: Broadway Books, 1990.
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- The password was given in class—email me if you missed class or don't recall the password. If you've had me before, think reading quiz question #5. . . .
Here's the story: