Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. ThatΓ’β¬β’s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you canΓ’β¬β’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
β Tim O'Brien
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