In the chaper "Ambush" of Tim O'Brien's "They Things They Carried", O'Brien's daughter asks him if he has ever killed a man. She believes that there has to be a reason for his writting so many war stories.
He lies and says that he hasn't, but internally wishes his daughter was an adult so he could tell her the truth: that he did kill a man with a grenade on the trail outside My Khe.
