Animal Quote by Michael Herr

“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

“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

“And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?”

— Michael Herr

Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.

— Michael Herr

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

— Michael Herr

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

— Michael Herr

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

— Michael Herr