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One of the passage from "The Things They Carried" that I found interesting is on page 35. "A guy goes AWOL. Shacks up in Danang with a Red Cross nurse. It's a great time--the nurse loves him to death--the guys gets whatever he wants whenever he wants it. The war's over, he thinks. Just nookie and new angles. But then one day he rejoins his unit in the bush. Can't wait to get back into action. Finally one of his buddies asks what happened with the nurse, why so hot for combat, and the guys says, "All that peace, man, it felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back." It seems as though he rejoined his unit and left behind the nurse was because he got bored. Bored of doing the same things over everyday and not experiencing new things. I can connect with this quote because at times when I get bored, I would like to go back to my past experiences.