My Brother Sam is Dead

Up to that time the war hadn't been very real. i mean i knew that it was going on because of the stories in the Connecticut journal and from tails we heard in the tavern... But none of them were people i really knew and so the war had always seemed to me like a story. To me this quote shows that how many people theses days view the present war, nothing but a story we here, and things we see on the news. I don't think people really understand how it is over their right now, because they only here stories, and stories you eventually forget after a wile, but when you see something that affects you in a way, it stays with you forever and you never forget.