...“I felt ‘The Things They Carried’ had finally managed, more or less, to allow readers to feel something of what I had felt back then through the stories I told and the devices I used,” he said. He wanted to make the book feel like a soldier remembering the real experiences of a war of long ago...“I think the real ways it changed my life is the response to the book, the e-mails and letters from hundreds, probably now thousands of people, not just veterans, but wives and sons and daughters. The book has touched people and has gotten people talking.”
Read Paulette Tobin's entire article here in The Grand Forks Herald
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