The setting is the Vietnam War, but also postwar Vietnam as O'Brien's character, the narrator, revisits the country and the old battlegrounds where he had once fought. The story focuses both on the things he remembers in the war and on the things they carried, and then he closes the circle at the end of the story by returning some of the things they carried to Vietnam and burying them. The reader gets the impression its to honor not only his comrades in arms, but the land itself, the losses, and the unfinished business they left behind there.
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