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• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
• Victory in combat is like sex with a prostitute. For a moment you forget everything in the sudden physical rush, but then…
• We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily…
• Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.
• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
• Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body
• It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans.
• Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.
• This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that…
• Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.
• The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.
• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So…

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