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     The short story Ambush by Tim OBrien is a story about a young American soldier, OBrien, in the Vietnam War. While on watch OBrien descry a young enemy soldier approaching his position. He throws a grenade and kills the young reality. Years later OBriens is faced with the finding of answering his daughter when she asks him if he ever killed anyone in the war. Not single was killing the man a tough decision, but now OBrien must answer his daughter. Ultimately he lies to her and I think that is the sic choice in that situation.     OBriens daughter is only ball club years old when she asks her father that painful question. I believe that the winning of someone elses life-time is such a life ever-changing event that it should only be discussed by mature adults. If OBrien chooses to carve up his daughter the truth when she is older, that is okay that is what I would do.     Later in his life OBrien thinks back and tries to sort out the mixed up issues of the stuporous dawn in Vietnam. Sometimes he believe that the young man would have just kept walking and never seen him, but sometimes he believes he did the right thing and forgives himself.     Although I dont know any war veterans, and I have never killed anyone, thither was an event in my life similar to the one in this story. When I was in third grade my dad was electrocuted and actually was clinically dead. He was later revived and when my mom talked to him the hospital he told her some cold out things. She has briefly mentioned some of them to me throughout my life, but I