Response to “How to Tell a True War Story”

         I have ever learned about war from a lot of stories, movies, novels, dramas. And people are willing to tell the war story by literature from both perspectives, cruel and evil, equally sacred and magnificent. War is so complex that the glory and evil of the human nature flash on the battlefield. As a spectator, I am unable to have in-depth impression but the author Tim O’Brien writes down "This is true." which has been emphasized for several times in text to describe a black humorous war story. And it gave me a different feeling.   
       The story is mainly about the death of Curt Lemon, a larky guy who didn't put the war seriously. He cheerfully played games all the way. This scene is so beautiful and sunshine that people are absorbed in the happy atmosphere of outing until Lemon accidentally stepped on a booby trap and dead in the blast. However, “when he died it was almost beautiful, the way the sunlight came around him and lifted him up and sucked him high into a tree full of moss and vines and white blossoms.” Such a dreamlike description and abrupt transition bring comrade more regret and sorrow. Thus when Rat slaughter baby buffalo without mercy, comrades can unhesitatingly criticize Rat merciless because he was giving vent to grief of comrades-in-arms’ gratuitous death. But “A true war story is never moral”; on other hands, he still committed evil. 
       Just like the story told by Mitchell Sanders, “For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel—the spiritual texture—of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery."  In war people lose their sense of the definite and the sense of truth itself, numbness is their normal status.  
        So this is true war story that people’s emotion is unnecessary at the result of war’s cruel nature.