In war, the soldiers witness horrible traumas. In Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story" the soldier's seem to love telling stories weather factual or fictional. They realize that "War is grotesque" (O'Brien 555) and that "War makes you dead" (O'Brien 555). The story telling for the soldier's seems to ease the minds from realities they have witnessed. They tend to start some of the stories with "For example" (O'Brien 550), and "'God's Truth'" (O'Brien 551), also "I heard this one" (O'Brien 550). So it would seem that for the soldiers "its difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen" (O'Brien 550) as they try to cope with the disturbances seen during war. Krebs in Ernest Hemingway's " Soldiers Home" realized "His l

Hemingway, Ernest. "Soldiers Home." 152-58

O'Brien, Tim. "How to Tell a True War Story." Meyer 548-58

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