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The Burdens of War: physical, emotional, psychological and mental The novel is dedicated to the real soldiers in Alpha Company who served with Tim O’Brien during the Vietnam War-Kiowa, Jimmy Cross, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, and Rat Kiley. His novel The Things They Carried is recognized as the finest book for families of soliders to read so that they may better understand what it means to serve in the military during war time. When he returned from Vietnam he began to write magazine articles about the war and eventually wrote several novels about the Vietnam War, soldiers and veterans. Tim O'Brien, born in 1946, was drafted and served in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1970 as a Sergeant.