You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
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… - Philip Caputo
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…
- Philip Caputo
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 … - Philip Caputo
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 …
True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore. - Philip Caputo
True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
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… - Philip Caputo
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…
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… - Philip Caputo
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…
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front. - Philip Caputo
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. - Philip Caputo
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. - Philip Caputo
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.
War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. - Philip Caputo
War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
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