Accuracy of the Book

While fact checking American Sniper, I found it difficult to focus on the book.  Most of the articles I found were proving the movie to be true or false.  I think that this is because the movie came out, and it was simple for the screenwriters to embellish the truth to make it more interesting and make more money.  The movie is based on the book, but what happens in the movie does not match completely with what is in the book.  I more believe the book because it is by Chris Kyle himself, and he seems like the type of person that would tell the truth, no matter what.  He is an honorable man, and he cares about his country.  We see this in the stories that he tells about being outraged at how people don't care about the war, or have uninformed opinions abut what is happening.  

In the beginning of the book in a Author's Note, he states that he Department of Defense and other Navy personnel read and reviewed the book before publishing for accuracy and sensitive material before publication.  I believe that this is good reason to believe that the things in the book are accurate.  It also says that there were requests that some material be taken out or changed for security reasons.  I don't believe that this would take away from the accuracy of the book.  This is done for our security as a country.  The changes I made, I would assume, would be changing names or taking out specific locations or other information that would possibly cause problems if put in the wrong hands.

Another thing that Kyle states in the Author's Note is that the dialogue was reconstructed from memory.  Obviously, he doesn't have a perfect memory.  He isn't going to remember what exactly was said at every moment from the times discussed in to book.  Nobody would.  But he says that though the dialogue is not word for word, the meaning is still the same.  I think that this is understandable, and does not mean that the book is inaccurate.