Answer:
is studying/ is hoping for
Explanation:
The best answer for this question would be:
The author’s wordings in the excerpt describe how his
experience was during the Vietnam war, he was young but was afraid to face
reality that his fellow comrades were dying in front of him. He describes how
in stories people can be able to twist what had happened to them, on the other
hand you could honestly tell them the true events that had happened.
Cause they spent all their money at the bar trying to impress the 22 year old girl who turned out to be a man