We are Scripted by War: Fire and Forget

Some of the best fiction is written from the inside out.  That is to say, its authors have "been there, done that."  Nothing against great writers like C. S. Lewis who, to the best of my knowledge, never set foot in a land called Narnia; or Charles Frazier who, I'm certain, never walked across the cold mountains of a Civil War landscape; or even Mary Shelley who, I hope, never assembled a new man from spare body parts--their imaginations have transported us in remarkable ways.  But...