Speaking of coming from a different time and place, it has often been said that your military experience leaves a clear mark on your work. It’s a matter of record that you served two tours of duty in Vietnam and your decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star with “V,” and two Vietnamese Crosses of Gallantry. How would you say your military experience is reflected in your Wheel of Time series?
My writing doesn’t really reflect any of my own personal war experiences, except that I know how it feels to have someone trying to kill you. I don’t try to write about Vietnam; I thought I would, once, but now, I don’t think I’d be able to. However, I know the feeling of confusion, doubt, and plain ignorance of anything you can’t see that exists once fighting starts. I don’t think war will ever become so technologically advanced as to completely dispel “the fog of war,” so I put those feelings into my writing.
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