The Things They Carried

How did Tim feel about the Vietnam war while he was at college? Do his actions and language support the idea that he hated the Vietnam war?

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Tim protested the war, all while trying to decide whether or not he would attend Harvard. College would have kept him out of the war, but he couldn't decide. He though about college, about crossing the border into Canada, and about what it took to serve his country. He considered his parents, his neighbors, and friends.... in the end, he couldn't dodge the draft.... he said he went to war because he was a coward. He went because of what people would say about him, how it would reflect upon his parents and how it would effect them.

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