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Michael Herr quotes

American Journalist April 13, 1940

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Michael Herr quote: "Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods."
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. Michael Herr
Going out at night the medics gave you pills, Dexedrine breath like dead snakes kept too long in a jar. [...] I knew one 4th division Lurp who took his pills by the fistful, downs from the left pocket of his tiger suit and ups from the right, one to cut the trail for him and the other to send him down it. He told me that they cooled things out just right for him, that could see that old jungle at night like he was looking at it through a starlight scope. "They sure give you the range," he said. Michael Herr
I met this kid from Miles City, Montana, who read the Stars and Stripes every day, checking the casualty lists to see if by some chance anybody form his home town had been killed. He didn’t even know if there was anyone else from Miles City in Vietnam, but he checked anyway because he knew for sure that if there was someone else and they got killed, he would be all right. “I mean, can you just see *two* guys from a raggedy-ass town like Miles City getting killed in Vietnam? Michael Herr
Michael Herr quote: "How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine..."
How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice? Michael Herr
...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years. Michael Herr
All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it. Michael Herr
Michael Herr quote: "Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong."
Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong. Michael Herr
Michael Herr quote: "for years now there had been no country here but the war."
for years now there had been no country here but the war. Michael Herr

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