"Dispatches" Quotes

I keep thinking about all the kids who got wiped out by seventeen years of war movies before coming to Vietnam to get wiped out for good.

We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.

It was a bad time. I was there, but I wanted to be somewhere else, anywhere but there.

The stars were dying in the sky, and on the ground my few remaining comrades were dying, too, it was very sad.

I think the human race is going to die, and I'm trying to cut down the body count.

The best part about knowing you're crazy is knowing you're not.

The first thing you learn in a war is that you don't want to be there.

In the end, you can't even really talk about it, because you can't explain it. You just know you don't want to ever go through it again.

There's no such thing as a war story. It's just what happens, and then what people say about it.

It was hard to be around people who didn't know what a monstrous thing had been done to them.