Tim O Brien's The Things They Carried

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According to Tim O’Brien, the author of The Things They Carried, “A true war story is never moral… If a story seems moral, do not believe it” (68). The truth about war is that they are immoral and by denying the truth of being immoral in war is a lie. To kill or be killed, is the decision that soldiers are faced with during times of war, it is a decision of being moral or immoral. According to war veterans, many war stories revolve around the subject of dehumanization being inevitable in war by including multiple war scenarios that are immoral which demoralizes the soldiers in war.
A Vietnam War veteran, Larry Moseley, expresses that he has lost aspects of humanity due to war. During his service in war, he experienced harsh conditions such