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Everybody wanted me to do it, him most of all. I felt like he was up there, waiting for me to take the pain away. He just wanted to go out like a soldier, standing up, not like some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade. Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that's who he really took his orders from anyway.
"Dear son,
I'm afraid that both you and your mother would have been worried for not hearing from me these past weeks. But my situation here has become a difficult one. I've been officially accused of murder by the Army. The alleged victims were four Vietnamese double agents. We spent months uncovering and accumulating evidence. When absolute proof was completed, we acted, we acted like soldiers. The charges are unjustified. They are in fact, under the circumstances of this conflict, quite completely insane. In a war there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action, for what is often called ruthless, what may in many circumstances be only clarity; seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it directly, quickly, aware Ö looking at it. I would trust you to tell your mother what you choose about this letter. As for the charges, I'm unconcerned. I'm beyond their timid, lying morality. And so I'm beyond caring.
You have all my faith.
Your loving father."
If I say it's safe to surf this beach, Captain, then it's safe to surf this beach!
You either surf or you fight.
What the hell do you know about surfing, Major? You're from goddamned New Jersey.
Charlie don't surf!
We use Wagner. My boys love it. It scares the hell outta' the slopes.
Outstanding, Red Team, outstanding! Getcha a case of beer for that one.
I will not hurt or harm you. Just give me back the board, Lance. It was a good board ñ and I like it. You know how hard it is to find a board you like.(
You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like Ö victory.
Someday this war's gonna end Ö
Never get out of the boat!
Never get out of the boat!
Never get out of the boat!
He's worse than crazy, he's evil!
There's mines over there, there's mines over there, and watch out those goddamn monkeys bite, I'll tell ya.
One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions ñ what are you going to land on ñ one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.
Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them."
He likes you because you're still alive.
I mean, what are they gonna say about him, when he's gone, huh? What are they gonna say? Are they gonna say "he was a kind man"? "He was a wise man"? "He had plans"; "He had wisdom"? Bullshit, man!
The heads. You're looking at the heads. I, uh ñ sometimes he goes too far, you know ñ he's the first one to admit it!
Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean, sometimes he'll, uh, well, you'll say hello to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you, and he won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say do you know that if is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you ñ I mean, I'm no, I can't ñ I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's, he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas ñ I mean ñ
There are two of you. One that kills and one that loves.
Then you are like us; your home is here.
The war will still be here tomorrow.
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