The Things They Carried

What view on war has O’Brien maintained since he was in college?

chapter 4 "on the rainy river" the things they carried.

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O’Brien had protested the war, but not strongly enough to be considered a pacifist. O’Brien is shamed to remember that he thought he was too good, too smart for the war -- so he considered running away to Canada.

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