'you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. if you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for truth, watch how you vote. send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.' tim o'brien
and more from the papers:
'the fowl and dirty language is part of the truth.'
'just those two words can already create a mental picture of how it looked and smelt.'