Read Tim O'Brien's "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong."
Visit the PBS website about the NEA's program called Operation Homecoming. This program encourages returning veterans to record their experiences when they come home from war. The website includes links to memoirs in the form of journals, letters, video diaries, animated clips, poetry, essays, etc.
Explore these creations as you listen to, watch, and read these memoirs
Look for the bar on the right called "Read Authors' Writings"
Read the ten brief memoirs and poems and find one that seems to have a couple of interesting similarities or differences with O'Brien's story
Look for just two or three similarities or differences so you have time and space to explore them in some detail
Write 5-6 paragraphs with an introduction including a thesis, 3-5 body paragraphs with topic sentences, and a brief conclusion (400-500 words total) telling us about a few important similarities or differences that interest you.