Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of….

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership..

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it..

Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays..

It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody kno….

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war..

We came to fear something more complicated than death, an annihilation less final but more complete, and we got out. Becausewe all knew that if you s….

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

We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in th….

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods..

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

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

Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands..