Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969
Michael Zboray
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“When you have so much to live for, fear is more predominant than ever.”
“Trouble! Now that’s one commodity we never run short of in Vietnam.”
“The only thing war will ever do (and do well), is decrease the world’s population of young men.”
“I’m only “in-country” for minutes when the rocket attack that kept the plane from landing resumes with a vengeance.”
“You don’t know LONELY till you’re in a war zone and cut off from everything and everyone you know and love.”
“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?”
“The talking works most of the time. Sometimes though, it isn’t enough. Then, many turn to drugs. It’s widespread in Vietnam. Pot is the drug of choice for most casual users. Only the hardcore users step up to the harder drugs like cocaine, opium or heroin.”
“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.”
“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.”
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