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Vietnam Hallucinations In Vietnam

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Many of the men that went to Vietnam have hallucinations. For example, Curt Lemon went to the Army dentist and he made them pull out a perfectly healthy tooth for no reason. O 'brien goes on in the story telling how each one of his friends died in the war in Vietnam. Many of the men were killed by the enemy, but there was two men who died just from their hallucinations.
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