Confusion In Tim O Brien's The Things They Carried

In The Things They Carried there is a lot of confusion between Tim O’Brien and other characters in the book. Most of that confusion, I believe comes with the public opinion about the Vietnam war and the mistrust in the government at the time. It is a fact that the majority of the youth in the late 60’s were against the war because of the great confusion that America was fighting someone else's war. The book even states “Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons”. That soul reason is what triggered all the riots and protests against the war. Still to current day that confusion remains with the Veterans and their families as to why we were there other than just fighting communism.
With that confusion Tim reveals that when he got