Tim O Brien Chapter Summary

O'Brien recalls a story that Rat Kiley told him and the other men. Rat always insisted the story was true. When Rat Kiley first arrived in Vietnam he was assigned to a small medical detachment with seven other guys.The wounded were brought in by helicopter, and then stabilized before being sent to a hospital. Eddie Diamond, the highest-ranking officer in the compound. The base had been used by the Special Forces and when Rat Kiley came there was still a squad of six Green Berets that used the compound. The Greenies avoided contact with the other men. One night Eddie Diamond joked that they should pool their money and get some village women to come to the compound. Six week later one medic Mark Fossie, let his girlfriend arrived at the compound. The girl, Mary Anne, was around …show more content…
Rat and Eddie followed him behind. There were candles burning, sounds of tribal music, and bad smell . They saw a decaying black leopard head post at the rear, strips of skin hung from the rafters overhead, there were bones of all kinds everywhere. Mary Anne came in ,but she was wearing a necklace of human tongues. Rat helped Fossie up and they went outside and the music and Mary Anne's voice could be heard again. Rat Kiley stopped there in the story, which drove Mitchell Sanders cracy . He asked what happened to Mary Anne. Rat said he couldn't know for sure, a few days later he got orders to report to Alpha Company, and that's the last he ever saw the compound or Mary Anne. Sanders wanted to know the end of the story.Rat said he did not know what happened to Mary but he learned from Eddie Diamond in Bangkok while he was on R&R that Mary has disappeared for good. . Rat suddenly said that he loved Mary Anne, everyone did. A few times they nearly saw Mary Anne crossed to the other side of the land. She was in the same outfit she had worn in their hut, her pink sweater and culottes, and necklace of tongues and she was dangerous, ready to