"They carried all the emotional baggage of men……" — Tim O'Brien

They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief,… - Tim O'Brien
"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."

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