Read this excerpt about the vietnam war from tim o'brien's "good form": i want you to feel what i felt. i want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth. here is the happening-truth. i was once a soldier. there were many bodies, real bodies with real faces, but i was young then and i was afraid to look. and now, twenty years later, i'm left with faceless responsibility and faceless grief. here is the story-truth. he was a slim, dead, almost dainty young man of about twenty. he lay in the center of a red clay trail near the village of my khe. . i killed him. what stories can do, i guess, is make things present. i can look at things i never looked at. i can attach faces to grief and love and pity and god. i can be brave. i can make myself feel again. "daddy, tell the truth," kathleen can say, "did you ever kill anybody? " and i can say, honestly, "of course not." or i can say, honestly, "yes." how does the author's specific word choice and stylistic devi