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This poem was my favorite of the section this week. Reading "The Things They Carried" helped me identify with this poem. It just really stuck out to me because a son is writing to his mother from Vietnam and he keeps the letters light and fluffy while she pleads with him to be serious. He eventually writes about the war and the father says he was depressing his mother. Many Americans are not involved with war. They do not keep up with what is going on or pay attention to the soldiers who fight in the war. Many people act like they want to know about the war, but when it becomes to depressing or scary, they have had enough and do not want to hear anymore. The lack of attention of wars hurts the country and especially the soldiers because they may need to talk about it, but no one is there to listen.