A new kind of picture book.

   I found this video of Kseniya Simonova to be a completely amazing and artistic take on war.  Although this artist tells the story of a different war I feel that both this depiction and the one of the Vietnam War in this section can be related.  In The Things They Carried, the narrator expresses that a true war story hides nothing.  In both the gruesome story of the Vietnam War and the story of the disastrous effects of World War II in the Ukraine,  raw emotional seeps throughout.  I find the story told in The Things They Carried to be one of extreme importance. As Simonova reflects on the past of the Ukraine, I feel that it is necessary for Americans to remember the Vietnam War and understand the severity of it whether they were alive at the time or not.  Although the narrator explains that there is no moral to a good war story, I feel that a greater appreciatation can be gained through such reflections and new emotional understandings can be formulated.