tional war, with dramatic campaigns and historic battles for subject matter instead of a monotonous succession of ambushes and firefights. But there were no Normandies and Gettysburgs for us, no epic clashes that decided the fates of armies or nations. The war was mostly a matter of enduring weeks of expectant waiting and, at random intervals, of conducting vicious manhunts through jungles and swamps where snipers harassed us constantly and booby traps cut us down one by one. Based on the excerpt, why might the author have titled the book A Rumor of War? because the author wrote about the Vietnam War, but he did not actually fight in it because many people have forgotten the events that happened during the Vietnam War because the Vietnam War was fought in an especially brutal and untraditional way because many of the Vietnam War stories are believed to be untrue and exaggerated