Every war is different. Every war is the same.
A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished wit… - Anthony Swofford
A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished wit…
- Anthony Swofford
My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little. - Anthony Swofford
My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.
My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. - Anthony Swofford
My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.
If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead. - Anthony Swofford
If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.
I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those g… - Anthony Swofford
I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those g…
Every war is different. Every war is the same. - Anthony Swofford
Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in th… - Anthony Swofford
Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in th…
It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not. - Anthony Swofford
It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.
It occured to me that we will never be young again. - Anthony Swofford
It occured to me that we will never be young again.
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