The Things They Carried

How does the reader know that Tim O’Brien is still bothered by this incident when he writes this book?

Chapter 12 -- “The Man I Killed” the things they carried

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O’Brien imagines what the man’s life must have been like. He makes up a whole fictional biography for his victim: He was always afraid to go to war, after hearing about the exploits of other war heroes in his village. He never thought he could be a hero, had avoided politics, was a scholar who loved math, was possibly in love with a classmate.