The chapter " How to Tell a True War Story" is about how O'Brians friend dies and Rat Kiley writes a letter to that soldiers sister explaining that he was a hero. Later on O'Brian criticizes Rat for telling a war story wrong. He says a true war story has no moral while Kiley was making his friends was story have moral.
"That surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem unreal, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed."
This quotation explains how war and stories have that kind of fictional glare and thought of "this would never happen" But the truth is really staring you right in your face once you take a better look and analyze the meaning.
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