A war story, and "write what you know" · 8:33pm Jul 12th, 2023
This is from Helmet For My Pillow, a non-fictional recounting of World War 2 by Robert Leckie, a Marine who fought at Guadalcanal and other places in the Pacific. I'm trying to figure out why this story hits me more powerfully than the combat stories in the same book, and how or whether I can write anything like it.