Krebs and the soldiers seem to share very similar emotions after returning from war. When soldiers talk about war, it seems to distract their minds from the realities of coping with traumas witnessed. War can leave the soldier traumatized. Young soldiers go into war with the innocence of youth but return aged and with experience.
             In war, the soldiers witness horrible traumas. In Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story" the soldier's seem to love telling stories weather factual or fictional. They realize that "War is grotesque" (O'Brien 555) and that "War makes you dead" (O'Brien 555). The story telling for the soldier's seems to ease the minds from realities they have witnessed. They tend to start some of the stories with "For example" (O'Brien 550), and "'God's Truth'" (O'Brien 551), also "I heard this one" (O 'Brien 550). So it would seem that for the soldiers "its difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen" (O'Brien 550) as they try to cope with the disturbances seen during war. Krebs in Ernest Hemingway's " Soldiers Home" realized "His lies were quite unimportant" (Hemingway 153) no one was actually listening to his stories. After being home for a month, Krebs started to get "nausea" (Hemingway 153) feelings from the story telling. He would rather get a routine going and ignore reality and people. Krebs wanted to be left alone. The soldier's in Wilfred Owen's " Dulce et Decorum Est" says "My friend, you will not tell with such high zest" (Owen l. 26) after witnessing the horrific events from war. The soldier's felt helpless in watching the death's of the other soldier's. As "He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning" (Owen l.16) we could not do anything
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