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In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

Tim O'Brien
War, Stories, Safe
Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.