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141 " I'm proud of my service, but I sure as hell didn't do it for any medal. They don't make me any better or less than any other guy who served. Medals never tell the whole story. "
― Chris Kyle , American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
142 " (One note about the body armor—Navy-issued body armor has been known to fall apart. In light of that fact, my wife’s parents very generously bought me some Dragon Skin armor after my third deployment. It’s super-heavy, but it’s extremely good armor, the best you can get.) "
143 " I never once fought for the Iraqis. I could give a flying fuck about them. "
144 " The first time Chris came home, he was really disgusted with everything. With America, especially. In the car on the way back to our house, we listened to the radio. People weren’t talking about the war; life went on as if nothing was happening in Iraq. “People are talking about bullshit,” he said. “We’re fighting for the country, and no one gives a shit. "
145 " When I think about the patriotism that drives SEALs, I am reminded of Ryan recovering in a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. There he was, freshly wounded, almost fatally, and blind for life. Many reconstructive surgeries to his face loomed ahead. You know what he asked for? He asked for someone to wheel him to a flag and give him some time. He sat in his wheelchair for close to a half-hour saluting as the American flag whipped in the wind. That’s Ryan: a true patriot. A genuine warrior, with a heart of gold. Of course we all gave him shit and told him somebody probably wheeled him in front of a Dumpster and just told him it was a flag. Being Ryan, he dished out as many blind jokes as he took and had us all rolling every time we talked. "
146 " I signed up to protect this country. I do not choose the wars. It happens that I love to fight. But I do not choose which battles I go to. Y’all send me to them. "
147 " States HarperCollins Publishers "
148 " Show me now. Make it real. Don't just say some sappy shit when you're gone. Otherwise, it's a load of crap. "
149 " Isn’t religion supposed to teach tolerance? "
150 " Medals never tell the whole story. And like I said, in the end they’ve become more political than accurate. "
151 " Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled. Maybe the reason is that the writing on the barrels showed that the chemicals came from France and Germany, our supposed Western allies. The thing I always wonder about is how much Saddam was able to hide before we actually invaded. We’d given so much warning before we came in, that he surely had time to move and bury tons of material. Where it went, where it will turn up, what it will poison—I think those are pretty good questions that have never been answered. "
152 " My country sent me out there so that bullshit wouldn’t make its way back to our shores. "
153 " I don’t worry about what other people think of me. It’s one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn’t give a hoot what others thought. He was who he was. It’s one of the qualities that has kept me most sane. "
154 " In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Every one of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers. "
155 " As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy. "
156 " It’s true that it can be difficult to sort out civilians from insurgents in certain situations, but here the bad guys made it easy for us. "
157 " SAY I PREFERRED FREEFALL TO STATIC JUMPING. I’M not saying I enjoyed it, just that I liked it a lot better. Kind of like picking the firing squad over being hanged. "
158 " plastic bottle of water. One of the Marines pulled his ruck over and used it as a pillow, catching some sleep. Another went downstairs, to the store on the first story of the building. It was a smoke shop; he returned with cartons of flavored cigarettes. He lit a few, and a cherry scent mingled with the heavy stench that always hung over Iraq, a smell of sewage and sweat and death. "
159 " My guys were going back to war and I was flying home. That sucked. I felt like I was letting them down, shirking my duty. It was a conflict—family and country, family and brothers in arms—that I never really resolved. "
160 " A él no le importaba en absoluto lo que pensaran los demás. Él era quien era. Esa "