O'brien How to tell a true war story

Truth is a funny concept to try and grasp in Obriens how to tell a "true" war story. In fact it is hard to grasp or even define truth in anything. But he sure does seem to talk about it alot in this story. The thing that i concluded is from his story is that sometimes in order to tell the truth you may have to tell a lie, or embelish a little. For example when the man was tell the story of how they had to sit there in silence and stillness for seven days and they started to hear all sorts of crazy things like "gook operas" The fact of the matter is that there was no real gook opera but that is just exemplary of the kind of crazy things that they were hearing. So in order to get peope to understand the truth that he is getting at he had to kind of make that up and exagerate a little. The is also some other lines in there that I like what Obrian say such as the war stories that sound tru are probably made up because its so crazy guys make up normal things over there to keep from going crazy. and also at the end how he says that a true war story isnt about the war at all, its about the people there and love, that is the truth. so although some of the stories or things in the stories in how to tell a true war story may not be entirely tru, the people and the things about the people are tru and thats what those little incomplete truth help you get at.