Award-winning author Tim O'Brien ... young soldier? I saw the people of that area in two radically different, contradictory ways. On the one hand, because of the values I carried to Vietnam ...

Tim O'Brien, Author ... Weapons and good-luck charms carried by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam here represent survival, lost innocence and the war's interminable legacy. ``O'Brien's meditations ...

The story of the young men of Alpha Company, a platoon of soldiers sent to fight on the ground during the Vietnam War ... An adaptation of Tim O'Brien's book of the same name.