https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76 Put your quotes in here en-us 2019-05-30 14:11:09 UTC 2019-05-31 12:35:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364642902 A true war story is never moral. (42)]]> 2019-05-30 14:14:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364642902 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364642938 2019-05-30 14:14:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364642938 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364642967 In many cases a true war story cannot be believed (pg-44)]]> 2019-05-30 14:14:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364642967 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364642974 A true war story is never moral ]]> 2019-05-30 14:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364642974 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364642992 And then afterward, when you go and tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed.]]> 2019-05-30 14:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364642992 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643004 2019-05-30 14:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643004 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643052 Everything talks. Nam- it truly talks. 46]]> 2019-05-30 14:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643052 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643117 "In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen." ]]> 2019-05-30 14:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643117 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643123 " In a true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth. You can't tease it out. You can't extract the meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning. "]]> 2019-05-30 14:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643123 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643142 A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe.]]> 2019-05-30 14:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643142 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643159 2019-05-30 14:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643159 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643175 You can tell a true war story by it's absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.]]> 2019-05-30 14:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643175 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643179 "In a true war story nothing is absolutely true"]]> 2019-05-30 14:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643179 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643200 "In any war story, especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen

]]> 2019-05-30 14:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643200 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643252 You can tell a true war story by the way it never seems to end.]]> 2019-05-30 14:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643252 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643337  The truths are contradictory. It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty. For all its horror, you can't help but gape at the awful majesty of combat. ]]> 2019-05-30 14:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643337 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643402 " In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to seperate what happened from what seemed to happen" ]]> 2019-05-30 14:16:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643402 wrighthj2 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643408 "It wasn't a war story. It was a love story." (54)

I think this is powerful because the whole story makes it seem that war stories are actually about the war itself, but at the end he explains that they are actually about other things, a deeper meaning that people that weren't involved in a war cant see easily. ex) love, sorrow, sunlight.]]> 2019-05-30 14:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643408 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643415 you can tell a true war story by the way it never seems to end... not then, not ever.]]> 2019-05-30 14:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643415 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643423 2019-05-30 14:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643423 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643425 There is no virtue.]]> 2019-05-30 14:16:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643425 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643506 2019-05-30 14:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643506 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643660 "A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done." (pg. 43)]]> 2019-05-30 14:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643660 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643746 2019-05-30 14:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643746 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643790  To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true ]]> 2019-05-30 14:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643790 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643943 2019-05-30 14:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364643943 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364644037 2019-05-30 14:17:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364644037 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364644331  A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. ]]> 2019-05-30 14:18:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364644331 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364644534  "Yet even if it did happen—and maybe it did, anything's possible—even then you know it can't be true, because a true war story does not depend upon that kind of truth. Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth" (53). ]]> 2019-05-30 14:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364644534 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364644682 2019-05-30 14:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364644682 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364644685 2019-05-30 14:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364644685 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364644777 "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 true war story nothing is ever absolutely true" (52)]]> 2019-05-30 14:19:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364644777 https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364645042 -and a true war story will tell the truth about this, though the truth is ugly.]]> 2019-05-30 14:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jesse_mcbride/5g3bxbo3sy76/wish/364645042