Cornelius Slate

Cornelius Slate is a citizen in Columbia, who's world view on the military is based on elaborate expectations, compared to the real experience of being a solder.

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 * Ken Levine mentions how this was inspired by the pathologizing of solders in war: You read newspapers that talk about “the fallen,” rather than the dead young men? There’s a lot of pathologizing in our culture. Obviously it’s important, but it’s also a disservice to the real experience. I mean, when you sanitize that experience—the Pat Tillman notion. His family’s saying “look, we honor him by telling the truth about him, about who he really was.” Obviously the military is very important to them too, just not turning people into wax works.