| "It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity." (The Things They Carried, p. 59). | The feelings of war are so enormous that they overwhelm the soldier's mind. They are no longer able to make moral or ethical decisions. Instead, these soldiers are caught in a catch-22, unable to decide if they should fight in the war. |