This chapter is my favourite, I love that Tim O'Brien brought a girl into the war, even if the story is not true I feel that he has touched on something that the world still has not gotten over. Should women be in war? Still today men think that they can do everything better then woman can, and maybe its true but each gender excels in different ways.
Mary Anne came into the war as a preppy little girl "barely out of high school" she was polished and perfect. However she began to go through stages that corrupter her, it started by visiting the village and not being afraid of anything around her, she stopped wearing all the jewelery and stopped pampering herself. She helped the men clean their guns, she learned how to dissemble a gun and put it back together again. She was out late, and one night she didn't even come home, turns out she was out on an ambush with the Greenies. She was fearless, they said she would prance along the trails without any weapons no sense of worry across her face. Once again she disappeared for three weeks, and when Mark Fossie found out she was back he was worried about her she was changing she wasn't the girl he wanted to marry and grow old with anymore. Fossie told her she was in a place where she didn't belong, and with that he told her how she wanted to eat Vietnam how she felt closer to herself here then anywhere else. She was gone, lost in the war literally. A few days after she had took off into the mountains, never to be found again.
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