John Vann fashioned a heroic narrative around his past.

Evidence

The John Vann of Vietnam could not have been the John Vann he wanted to be and not have led his Ranger company through a night of heroic resistance when the Chinese attacked in Korea. … He knew he would have behaved just as courageously as Puckett had, and so he wove the story into his legend. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 1360

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 1360