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It explores the way that telling stories simultaneously recalls the pain of the war experience and allows soldiers to work through that pain after the war has ended. O'Brien and Bowker illustrate how speaking or not speaking about war experience affects characters.
The author's main purpose was the explain that the Community Service Council was effectual to high school students. The personal backstory was to add more evidence of the effectiveness.
