The Vietnam War was not a “nice” war. Soldiers were forced to fight guerrilla troops, fought in horrible weather conditions, had to live in dangerous jungles and, worst of all, lost sight of who they were. Many soldiers may have entered with a sense of pride, but returned home desensitized. The protagonist of Louise Erdrich’s “Red Cabriolet” bears witness to this. In the story, the protagonist is a vibrant young man before the war and is a mere shell of himself after the war. The protagonists of Tim O'Brien's "If I Die in a Combat Zone" and Irene Zabytko's "Home Soil" are also seriously affected by the war. All three characters must go through traumatic experiences. Only those who fought in the Vietnam War understand what these men, both fictional and real, were subjected to. After the war, the protagonists of these stories must learn how to deal with a war that was not fought to win, but rather to ensure that the United States remained politically correct in its handling of the conflict. This caused even more anxiety and unrest among the soldiers. While these three stories may have fictionalized events, they are tied to factual events, and even more so to the ramifications of war, whether psychological, moral, emotional, or cultural. “The Red Convertible” and “Home Soil” give readers a glimpse into the lives of soldiers once home after the war and how they never fully return, while “If I Die in a Combat Zone” is a letter of protest before joining the war. The three protagonists must live with the consequences of the Vietnam War: the loss of their identity. Erdrich's "The Red Cabriolet" and Zabytko's "Home Soil" both give strong interpretations of two distinct reactions. In their powerful words of fiction, the middle of paper must face similar pains. Thanks to the authors of these stories, we have a better idea of ​​what the soldiers experience and the connection that war has with the psyche of these men. While it is true and known that the Vietnam War was bloody and that many soldiers died in vain, we often forget what happened to those who returned home. We forget what happened to these men and the pain they and their families had to face. Some left physical scars, a constant reminder of a horrible time in their lives, while others left emotional and mental scars. The universal fact found in all soldiers is the dramatic transformation they all undergo. None of these men now have the opportunity to create their own identities or pursue the aspirations they once had as young men. They become and forever will be soldiers of the Vietnam War..