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READ THIS FIRST The following is an excerpt from The Things They Carried by Tim O How do you generalize War is hell, but that s not the half of it, because war is mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. The truths are contradictory. It can be argued, for instance, that war is grot