Why did the author include the sentence “the river tugged hold of rebecca’s dad which sent him cascading along its path as though he was nothing more than a fallen tree branch? ”

because of its location and commercial importance, atlanta was used as a center for military operations and as a supply route by the confederate army during the civil war. therefore, it also became a target for the union army. general william tecumseh sherman and his troops captured the city in 1864.

because the vietnam war was fought in an especially brutal and untraditional way