A good story about war doesn't just tell the war side of the story, yet the human and individual side of the story. Tim O'Brien's book, The Things They Carried, and the film, We Were Soldiers, coordinated by Randall Wallace, both make an extraordinary showing of telling a good war story. Despite the fact that O'Brien's is in print regardless he made an extraordinary showing with getting a lot of point of interest into the book and painting a picture for the reader.

One comparison that can be made is the relationship between O'Brien and his girl in the book, and Mel Gibson and his little girl in the film. The little girl in the movie helped me to remember Kathleen from the book in light of the fact that she asked plenty of