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Interview #82: Waldenbooks Interview, Entry #3

Waldenbooks

As a man who served tours of duty in Vietnam, how does your epic reflect your own personal experiences with war, and how difficult is this for you to write about?

Robert Jordan

It really doesn’t reflect any of my own experiences, except that I know what it is like to have someone wanting to kill you. I don’t try to write about Vietnam; I thought I would, once, but now, I don’t believe I could make myself. But I know the confusion, uncertainty and out-right ignorance of anything you can’t see that exists once the fighting starts; I don’t think war will ever become sufficiently high-tech to completely dispel “the fog of war.” So I can put these sensations into my writing.

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