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com. In high school.

In high school, I remember reading the things they Carried, a collection of interrelated short stories by Tim O'Brien about the Vietnam War.

The book came out in 1990, the end of a fruitful five-year period of reflection on the war in film

including the classic platoon full metal jacket good morning Vietnam and born on the 4th of

July all of those but especially the things they carried, resonated with me, a teenage boy only a few years younger than many of the protagonists.

Of course, the danger, adventure, heroism, courage, and sacrifice of war stories or alluring, but these tales were

both smaller and larger, meditations on humanity and morality place. The reason

they're moving is that you can feel the reality, the reverberating consequences of placing boys on the front line.

On today's Saturday, matinee, we bring you more of that reality.

The hosts of the podcast Warriors in their own

words have for the last 30 years been interviewing war veterans from every

major American conflict from the first World War to the present day. They share these stories every week and today we return to Vietnam and hear from Captain Michad, who served in Vietnam on a psychiatric team where he evaluated and assisted soldiers dealing with mental health issues.

He's now president of the National Veterans Foundation, which he founded in 1985.

I hope you enjoy.

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