It is hard to know what stories will stick in someone's mind. I remember a Biology teacher in grade school who told us all a story about an American soldier with an unusually high metabolic rate nicknamed 'Shorty' who was machine gunned in half by German soldiers in WWII. I don't know if that is actually possible but the story certainly has stuck in my mind for forty years.

Tarantino has used the same type of casual storytelling to relate some important truths about war and human nature while avoiding most of the dilemmas posed by JFK-esque 'magic bullets' and other nagging problems of trying to be utterly literal in recreating firefights and other lethal engagements on a big, shiny two dimensional movie screen in a finite period of time.

A viewer may not even know what they just saw but still be affected by the 'content' in a way that will stay with them for the rest of their life. The ability of the viewer to describe every fine detail of the fight scene is much less significant than is the scene's ability to demonstrate some important truth about human nature in a way that will illuminate all future thoughts by the viewer about war and why it exists. The mechanics are incidental to the morals.