the things they carried- 15

In this part of the book i read from page 83 to 88.  Here he talks about telling war stories and things that happen and stories that are told and people never ever believe them. There was a story about how four guys were walking on a trail and a grenade sails out and one jumps on top of it but it was a killer grenade and as they are about to die the guys look at him and ask why did you do that? He says "story of my life" and they all smile as they are about to die. The point is that the war stories some are true and some aren't but war stories usually aren't happy stories.