There are different aspects in what our nation is fighting for such as freedom or oil, but the government mainly focuses on telling us it is for freedom or our country and we are quick to believe them without questioning a thing; We will never really know exactly who or what we are fighting for. In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brian says, “They carried their reputations. They carried the soldiers greatest fear which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were more embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or dishonor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor”. If we are people who do not believe in