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Danh ngôn của Tim O'Brien (Sứ mệnh: 6)

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me... I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it.
I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile.
I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.
A true war story is never moral.
I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.
I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.
What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I'm still struggling with it, 40 years later.
Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.
I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.