What they carried with them. O’Brien T.

What did they carry with them - these boys, abandoned to the other end of the world, into tropical jungle, on a strange war, unexplored by them? Cigarettes and canned peaches, comics and scripture. Means from mosquitoes. Drugs. Letters of your favorite girls.

And more? And his eighteen, nineteen, twenty years. And your desire to live. And the fear of death, which sometimes, concentrating, turned into inconceivable cruelty.

And also? And also the belief that they will survive - although not everyone had to survive. Those who survived had to put a heavy load of memory on the shoulders, and they will always carry this load.