Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.