In the book The Things They Carried author Tim O’Brien writes a collection of Vietnam war stories. In chapter 6 “How to Tell a True War Story” Tim O’Brien tells the reader a few short stories. He starts with a story about how Rat’s friend Curt Lemon had died, so Rat wrote a letter to his sister who never wrote him back. He continues to write about how Curt Lemon died by stepping on a landmine and was lifted off the ground into a tree. Then Mitchell Sanders tells a story about six men who went into the woods for a week to listen for enemy movement but end up hearing music which slowly gets more intense as the week goes by. O’Brien returns to the first story again and say that after Curt Lemon died they found a baby water buffalo that Rat later
