text: A character in this short story collection remembers touching his date's knee during the climactic shootout of Bonnie and Clyde.
full_question: A character in this short story collection remembers touching his date's knee during the climactic shootout of Bonnie and Clyde. The last story in this collection describes how the narrator's childhood girlfriend Linda died of a brain tumor.  In another story in this collection, the narrator begins crying while on a boat in the Rainy River.  Curt Lemon dies and Rat Kiley shoots a water buffalo in this collection's "How to Tell a True War Story".  Ted Lavender is killed while the commanding officer Jimmy Cross is thinking of his girlfriend in the title story of this collection.  For 10 points, name this memoir of the Vietnam War by Tim O'Brien, whose title objects include salt tablets, chewing gum, and M-16s.
first_sentence: A character in this short story collection remembers touching his date's knee during the climactic shootout of Bonnie and Clyde.
raw_answer: The Things They Carried