5. Early in the story, the narrator warns, “If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been
made the victim of a very old and terrible lie." What is the lie, who tells it and why? Toward the
end, the narrator tells a story about a soldier who jumps on a grenade in an attempt to save his
comrades. What happens in the often-repeated Hollywood version of this narrative? What makes
this particular version (the narrator's) “a true story" even though it "never happened"?