SSRJ #2 When I read this story I felt extreme sympathy for the author of which the story was about. The structure in this story provides the very graphic and the horrible reality of combat. I really enjoyed this story and hope to read more like it. The author Daly walker a Veteran of the Vietnam War presents this story in a first person point of view which in my opinion is the only way to make the story so powerful. The main idea that combat veterans thought history come back from war physically but have a hard time completely leaving the tragic event of war behind. Walker uses flashbacks in the story such as looking out the window of the plane seeing clouds can cause him to break out in a sweat. Upon arrival in Vietnam 20 years later to perform surgery the narrator takes a cab, sees the Viennese driver face and gets the image of his head on a pole. Walker reviling these horrible flashbacks support the reality that Soldiers of the past and present are still trying to leaving the war behind even 20 years later. What significance do you think the grass being mentioned several times in the story represents. I think it represents the covering up of the traumatic events that occurred on that land years before and the grass is time.