One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
Walter Dean MyersEach time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.
Walter Dean MyersThe movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, thatโs not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.
Walter Dean Myers