It is never moral
It does not instruct or improve you
It does not generalize
It is often impossible to believe
It is often contradictory
It is told for the truth of feeling, not factual accuracy
It makes you feel the confusion and uncertainty of war
It includes details that seem trivial but feel real
It may be funny, then horrifying
It may be beautiful, then brutal
It resists neat endings
It leaves you with doubt
It keeps changing each time it is told
It is truer than a simple factual account when it captures what war feels like