To my knowledge, at least, I never killed anyone. Here is a portion of that early version (I have retained the cross-throughs as they appear in the copy at the Harry Ransom Center):
In the typescript for the book that O’Brien sent to Houghton Mifflin, the chapter titled “Good Form,” which discusses O’Brien’s interactions with the (ostensibly real) veteran Norman Bowker, also included a long passage disavowing any happening-truth in “Rainy River” or “Field Trip,” or in various other events in the book, such as O’Brien’s empathetic imagination of the Vietnamese life he has ended by shooting an enemy soldier on patrol, or a postwar visit from his former company commander, Jimmy Cross. And, while O’Brien did return to Vietnam in 1994, accompanied by his then girlfriend-this trip is the subject of his well-known piece for The New York Times Magazine, “The Vietnam in Me”-his daughter did not go with him, because he had no children. In fact, while O’Brien did agonize about serving in a war he vehemently opposed, he never made any trip like the one in “Rainy River ” his worries played out entirely in Worthington. (That is, they take these stories to be relatively conventional instances of fiction based on episodes from the author’s life, even if contained within a much more complex metafictional narrative.) Many readers, and most of my students over many years of teaching the book, take the circumstances of “Rainy River” and “Field Trip” to be at least more or less true (in the conventional sense): they assume that O’Brien made some sort of trip away from his family while deciding whether to honor his draft notice, even if not precisely the one portrayed here, and that O’Brien and his daughter went back to Vietnam years after the war, even if, again, the “real” version of that event differs from its fictional representation. The book blurs the lines between fiction and truth even further in its dedication to a group of soldiers who turn out to be fictional characters throughout the rest of the book, and in the appearance of “Tim O’Brien” in several stories, a figure who seems very similar to, but not quite identical with, the author. Throughout The Things They Carried, O’Brien famously distinguishes between “happening-truth,” or an accurate and verifiable account of historical events, and “story truth,” or readers’ genuine experience of the story, even if the details are invented. But in the original version of Things, readers would have turned the page to discover that neither of these stories is “true.” Because these stories are removed from the daily realities of the war, they tend to be more accessible to O’Brien’s audience. In “Field Trip,” O’Brien returns to Vietnam many years after his tour of duty as a foot soldier and radio operator, now with his ten-year-old daughter, Kathleen, as he seeks some measure of peace from the traumatic memories of a close comrade’s death. Two of the most poignant stories in The Things They Carried are “On the Rainy River” and “Field Trip.” “Rainy River” portrays a young O’Brien, weeks removed from his college graduation, leaving his home in Worthington, Minnesota, for a fishing outpost on the Canadian border, agonizing over whether to report for Army induction or to live as a draft dodger. The Harry Ransom Center holds the author’s archive. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The book depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer. See Expressions.Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. If you need additional control over these symbols-if you don’t want the symbol centered in the measure, for example-you can also insert a measure repeat symbol as an expression. You can edit the properties of the staff styles see Staff styles for more detail. To restore the music, select the measures again and choose Staff > Clear Staff Styles From (and then the desired score/part option or press the CLEAR key (laptop users Fn-6)).Finale hides all the music in all layers, and replaces it with these measure repeat marks. The letters in parentheses are predefined staff style Metatools. The Apply Staff Style dialog box appears.
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