From letters and diary entires from the front lines to Ernest Hemingway's early novels, Americans have long made sense of war through the tales told by soldiers, both real and fictional. While the way we wage war has changed drastically since Hemingway, how we deal with it — through writing — continues. As America continues to be embroiled in a different sort of conflict — the "War on Terror" — readers are turning to those who have actually experienced fighting to help make sense of it all.
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