The theme to Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story" is that no war story holds absolute truth though told to be true, for there is no point to the Vietnam War and thus no point to a story of the Vietnam War. You cannot help but come to this conclusion through the repetitive manner in which O'Brien pounds these thoughts into your head. O'Brien presents the idea that one cannot generalize about war because generalizations bring no emotion and serve no purpose. We are warned that: "In many cases a
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