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Michael Herr quotes: 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.

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 quotes: You don't have to be a seasoned tactician to realize that your ass is cold.

You don't have to be a seasoned tactician to realize that your ass is cold.

Michael Herr quotes: What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts?The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts?
The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

Michael Herr quotes: Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

Michael Herr quotes: And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?

And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?

Michael Herr quotes: Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

Michael Herr quotes: How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

Michael Herr quotes: 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 quotes: You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert ...

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert ...

Michael Herr quotes: Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.

Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.

Michael Herr quotes: If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war,

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war,

Michael Herr quotes: Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Michael Herr quotes: 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.

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.