The account of Mr.O'brien's chilling story about the morning he killed a man in vietnam is brilliant and concise, and the questions he raises over the morality of war and what is right and wrong is inspiring. The struggles he goes through to try and piece together his innocence or guilt portrays a shadow on his life since the moment of that fateful morning. How can a man who is surrounded by death and destruction be able to separate his own actions from that of his friends and enemies ? The horrors of war stick with everyone who has ever experienced it moreover this story highlights the authors loneliness