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Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969 QUOTES

Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969 QUOTES

1 " In Vietnam, particularly in the boonies, you are your brother’s keeper – and he yours. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

2 " I’m only “in-country” for minutes when the rocket attack that kept the plane from landing resumes with a vengeance. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

3 " As we all know, everyone feels fear. How it’s handled is what’s different between people. You look into the eyes of anyone on board the plane and see it. It’s ever-present. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

4 " I’ve been raised by a father who is the consummate macho man. He has a face carved of stone and wouldn’t give anyone the chance to believe that he might have any feelings of pain or sadness. He brought me and my there brothers up not to cry. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

5 " The war draws you into it and changes you forever. That’s what war does best. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

6 " Friendship here is like a flower that blooms in the desert; it blossoms from the harshest environment to add something special to the lives it touches. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

7 " The one certain thing In the Army is – nothing is ever certain. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

8 " I’m young, strong, healthy meat for the “little conflict” that got out of hand. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

9 " I want to forget this awful place. Yet, at the same time, I never want to forget the many lessons that enabled me to mature quickly from just a skinny kid with a scraggly mustache, into a young man working so hard to seem older than his few years, as he evolves into early manhood. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

10 " I’m a young man, trained to do what is necessary, but all the training in the world can’t prepare you for the first time you have to kill another human being or see a buddy get blown apart. No, I’m not tough… I’m scared. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

11 " Sorrow is also a terrible weapon of destruction, one that kills from the inside out. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

12 " Trouble! Now that’s one commodity we never run short of in Vietnam. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

13 " The only thing war will ever do (and do well), is decrease the world’s population of young men. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

14 " When you have so much to live for, fear is more predominant than ever. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

15 " The radio is playing Blood, Sweat and Tears’ “And When I Die” as I drift off to sleep listening to the artillery fire in the distance. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

16 " Now, you’ve never seen a rat, until you’ve seen a Vietnamese rat. That’s unless you include some o the politicians who push to keep this war going at the same time they are helping their own sons escape the draft. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

17 " What could it be in this country that transforms young, vibrant, innocent guys like me into steely-eyed, sharp-tongued, single -minded killers with “the thousand yard stare? "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

18 " You don’t know LONELY till you’re in a war zone and cut off from everything and everyone you know and love. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

19 " Something people don’t think much about when they write a soldier in a war zone is how much diversion can refresh the soul. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

20 " The only thing worse than fighting in a war, is fighting in a war within a war. "

― , Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969