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Philip Caputo quotes: I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war ... suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war ... suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

Philip Caputo quotes: War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Philip Caputo quotes: And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it.

And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it.

Philip Caputo quotes: The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

Philip Caputo quotes: As a rule he had found it useful as well as prudent to trust his fellow man to do the right thing only when the wrong thing failed to present

As a rule he had found it useful as well as prudent to trust his fellow man to do the right thing only when the wrong thing failed to present itself.

Philip Caputo quotes: I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

Philip Caputo quotes: In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

Philip Caputo quotes: Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.