Michael Herr's Dispatches and Vietnam

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Herr presents war as hell, and none of his real-life characters strive to be heroic, or larger than life in contrast to much of the modern literature written on war. If the men in Dispatches are courageous is it because they have risked such action to stay alive, or save a fellow grunt, not because they believe some grand political theory such as American Exceptionalism or objective truths...
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To see that Herr did not immediately publish his accounts is startling because they read as if he is writing these accounts as he is experiencing them, and then immediately sending across the wire for public consumption. In waiting several years to publish his memories of Vietnam it is also apparent that these articles are a way of Herr dealing with his traumatic time in the jungle during which at times he appears to disregard his role as a correspondent, and instead becomes an armed grunt simply hoping to make it through the night...
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