"A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then ... , in which some ultimately were, others also flopped. But that does not mean that they were trying to tell us something about the war in Vietnam, historically accurate or not. Some were more overt in their views than others and...

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