“After a year I felt so plugged in to all the stories and the images and the fear that even the dead started telling me stories, you’d hear them out of a remote but accessible space where there were no… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“I met this kid from Miles City, Montana, who read the Stars and Stripes every day, checking the casualty lists to see if by… — Michael Herr Copy Share
“We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything… — Michael Herr Copy Share
“And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?” — Michael Herr Copy Share
How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice? — Michael Herr Copy Share
“After a year I felt so plugged in to all the stories and the images and the fear that even the dead started telling… — Michael Herr Copy Share
“Search and Destroy, more a gestalt than a tactic, brought up alive and steaming from the Command psyche. Not just a walk and a… — Michael Herr Copy Share
“Anyway, you couldn’t use standard methods to date the doom; might as well say that Vietnam was where the Trail of Tears was headed… — Michael Herr Copy Share
“I keep thinking about all the kids who got wiped out by seventeen years of war movies before coming to Vietnam to get wiped… — Michael Herr Copy Share
“Take the glamour out of war! I mean, how the bloody hell can you do _that_? Go and take the glamour out of a… — Michael Herr Copy Share
You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . . — Michael Herr Copy Share
“Going out at night the medics gave you pills, Dexedrine breath like dead snakes kept too long in a jar. [...] I knew one… — Michael Herr Copy Share
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in… — Michael Herr Copy Share
“...you could also hear the other, some young soldier speaking in all bloody innocence, saying, 'All that's just a load, man. We're here to… — Michael Herr Copy Share
