The Things They Carried
What is Song Tra Bong:?
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A river in Vietnam that seems to symbolize the power and savagery of the country. Mary Anne Bell disappears along the river, when her hunger for life in the jungle consumes her. Kiowa gets swallowed up by the muck on the river bank. The river seems to symbolize the war itself: violent, unforgiving, sometimes beautiful, and deadly