"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!"
The honest truth is, there is no truth. Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story" gives a great example of what exactly is true about a war story. He states, "In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a true war story nothing is absolutely true". In this collection of short stories, he tells the same story three different times. One can't truly tell a war story because it?s not just a war story. Its a love story, its a mystery, its a question about life, its never really about war. A "true" war story seems to be more along the truth of emotions rather than what physically took place. Coming to the conclusi
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