Photo: #The cover of "The Things They Carried," by Tim O'Brien.

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Revisiting the painful legacy of the Vietnam war

Broadcast: Midmorning, 05/29/2006, 10:06 a.m.

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A rebroadcast of the first Midmorning Book Club on the novel, "The Things They Carried." Author Tim O'Brien's classic delves into the impact of the Vietnam War on veterans and families and was named as one of the 25 best works of fiction over the last quarter century by the New York Times Book Review.

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