Fully Awake? Fully Alive?

     "In an odd way, though, there were times when I missed the adventure, even the danger, of the real war out in the boonies. It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you're afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. you become part of a tribe and you share the same blood ..."

     O'Brien T. "The things they carried." Mariner Books, Boston, 1990.

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