The text shown above is true and is an excerpt from the book "The Things They Carried" written by Tim O'Brien. This book contains a set of short stories about a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War, where their fears, interactions and even their fates are shown. The excerpt shown in the question shows the moment when one of these soldiers, after playing basketball with his friends, used a rope to end his life, probably due to the trauma caused by the war.
