In class yesterday while discussing "The things They Carried", we briefly brought up that this story,as gruesome and odd as it is, is a love story. I began to really think on it. I mean come on! How on earth can this book about death, and horror, and losing yourself, and war and human tongue necklaces be a love story?! It made no sense...at first. I then began to think deeper, and this Bible verse came to mind. "No greater love has no one than this,that he lay down his life for his friends" John 15:13. I mean wow! This verse states that the greatest love there is, is sacrifice to save another human soul! And that is what these soldiers in Vietnam were doing. As hard as it was and even as much as they didn't want to, they still did it, Because it proved to be the greatest love possible. To sacrifice yourself, so that others may live....Deep stuff huh?