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

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

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front..

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….

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

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

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 its own..

The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences. But once I go….

True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore..

It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is lik….

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 were the….

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