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But this is more a story exploring what war does to an individual, and a story protesting about the futility of that particular war. I have often wondered why many British veterans of the Burma campaign at the end of the Second World War never wanted to talk about their experiences; maybe, after reading White Badge , I might understand a small part of that reluctance.

His encounter with a torso in a pond being eaten by ducks is similarly nauseating. I dreamed almost every night, but never, not even once did I dream about the body chewed by the river ducks. Very strangely, the most shocking experiences I had gone through were never reproduced in my dreams.

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Han is more robust than many in his company. Private Pyon Chinsu is a mental wreck more or less from the start, while others are fragmented by their jungle experiences or when they learn that their sweetheart at home has married another man and perhaps has never loved them in the first place. The Vietnam War is not a heroic affair.

For the first few weeks the new recruits spend their time simply digging and guarding. The first blood they spill is that of a few harmless buffalo, mistaken in the dark for some VC infiltrators the aftermath of which engagement is a tedious and bureaucratic negotiation over the appropriate level of financial compensation payable to the local villagers for dead and wounded farm animals.

To support this narrative, the war must be a just war, a war that our boys are winning.