The idea of my purface is proving The Things They Carried was written based on Tim O'Brien's real war experience. This also change later. This perface has the problem of giving too much information and details about the war and it is kind of boring. I also add the peer review in the comments.

The Things They Carried is a collection of short stories written by Tim O’ Brien, which is about a group of American soldiers in the Vietnam way. Although the use of real names and inclusion of himself as the protagonist within the book creates a style that meshes and blurs the fiction and non-fiction, I’d like to prove that this book is based on real experiences. Many people who always evade the topic of wars don’t believe the stories are true because they are too dark and bloody for them to imagine. But the stories are based on the true experiences of the author, who was a soldier in the 23^rd Infantry Division. This paper will be a documentary of the incidents in the life of Tim O’ Brien, showing the evidence of his experience in the war.

War is always a hard topic, especially for the soldiers who have experienced the danger and death. It’s already hard for Tim O’Brien to write his stories down to tell people who ignore or don’t understand the cruel of wars. However, many people who are too far to recognize the darkness and brutality of wars choose not to believe the author’s experience. So I want to show them the authenticity of his stories and the gloomy side of war.

According to Wikipedia, the Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies and the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies and the war is therefore considered a Cold War-era proxy war. Beginning in 1950, American military advisors arrived in what was then French Indochina. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with troop levels tripling in 1961 and again in 1962. U.S. involvement escalated further following the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which a U.S. destroyer clashed with North Vietnamese fast attack craft, which was followed by the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the U.S. president authorization to increase U.S. military presence. Regular U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Operations crossed international borders: bordering areas of Laos and Cambodia were heavily bombed by U.S. forces as American involvement in the war peaked in 1968, the same year that the communist side launched the Tet Offensive. The Tet Offensive failed in its goal of overthrowing the South Vietnamese government, but became the turning point in the war, as it persuaded a large segment of the U.S. population that its government's claims of progress toward winning the war were illusory despite many years of massive U.S. military aid to South Vietnam. Direct U.S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973. The capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year. The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities. Estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from 966,000 to 3.8 million. And 58,220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict.