Read the excerpt from A Rumor of War (Links to an external site.). Repeatedly, I have found myself wishing that I had been the veteran of a conventional war, with dramatic campaigns and historic battles for subject matter instead of a monotonous succession of ambushes and firefights. Which best describes the purpose of the paradox in the excerpta) because the author wrote about the vietnam war, but he did not actually fight in itb) because many people have forgotten the events that happened during the vietnam warc) because the vietnam war was fought in an especially brutal and untraditional wayd) because many of the vietnam war stories are believed to be untrue and exaggerated