The Things They Carried

In The Field-Field Trip

there are five different stories relating to the night in the “shit field”. Why do you suppose O’Brien includes different stories, which conflict in some ways, to tell us what happened in the “shit field”(what is he trying to convey about war through these different chapters

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O'Brien provides different stories because everyone sees things in their own way. Who's to say which version is right or wrong.... it's all about how things are perceived, and we all perceive different events in different ways.