Crafts Quote by Philip Caputo

Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there…

— Philip Caputo

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

— Philip Caputo

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

— Philip Caputo

“I really believe that when we start talking ourselves back, we'll have more to offer the world." he [Woodenkinfe] said. "I don't want a…

— Philip Caputo

“The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.”

— Philip Caputo

“Directly overhead the Milky Way was as distinct as a highway across the sky. The constellations shown brilliantly, except the north, where they were…

— Philip Caputo

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

— Philip Caputo

There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this…

— Philip Caputo

Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves…

— Philip Caputo

“Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American…

— Philip Caputo

In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted…

— Philip Caputo

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on…

— Philip Caputo