Wednesday on the NewsHour: Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried' Turns 20

Wednesday on the NewsHour, a book about war that has stood the test of time, read today by students in classrooms across the nation. Jeffrey Brown talks to "Tim O'Brien":http://www.illyria.com/tobhp.html about his landmark work, "The Things They Carried," a piece of fiction based on the author's experience serving in the Vietnam War. That work marks its 20th anniversary this year. _We'll post that video when it becomes available later this evening._ **Jeff also talked to O'Brien about how he started writing as a young man, and whether he'd be a writer today if he hadn't served in Vietnam:** **Watch O'Brien read an excerpt from "The Things They Carried":**