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True War Story In Vietnam
This document told about a war story in the Vietnam War. While told the war story, author mentioned “true war story cannot be believed” many times. War is crazy, normal things in war story were false, crazy things in war truly happened. War stories are not absolutely true, because people can add some interesting or impressive things into war stories to attract audiences’ attention. People always think of death or other bad words when mentioned war. However, the author considered that death and vitality, civilization and wildness, love and hate, ugliness and beauty, law and anarchy are mixed up in war. Of course, there is also no absolutely true in daily life. In the last paragraph, the author told that true war stories are not describe the
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