Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.
One morning in Saigon she'd asked what it was all about 'This whole war,' she said, 'why was everybody so mad at everybody else?'I shook my head. 'They weren't mad exactly. Some people wanted one thin...
Proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life.
They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried. In
Sometimes the bravest thing in the world was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones.
They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it.
Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when m...
Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are.
Story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.
That's a true story that never happened.
You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don’t care for obscenity, you don’t care for the truth; if you don’t care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come hom...
The day was cloudy. I passed through towns with familiar last names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. I survived, but...
The days seemed to stretch out toward infinity, blank and humid, without purpose, and at night I was kept awake by the endless drone of mosquitoes and helicopters. (Why wars must be contested under su...
Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what's best in yourself and in the world, all that mig...
The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.
То, что Джон Уэйд пошел на войну, было заложено в природе любви. Не ради того он пошел, чтобы гробить других или себя, не ради того, чтобы быть хорошим гражданином, или героем, или человеком нравствен...
They sat smoking the dead mans dope until the chopper came
The things they carried were determined to some extent by superstition.
The things they carried were largely determined by necessity.
The town could not talk, and would not listen. How'd you like to hear about the war? he might have asked, but the place could only blink and shrug. It had no memory, therefore no guilt. The taxes got...
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