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

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True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

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Our mission was not to win terrain, or seize positions, but simply to kill: to kill Communists and to kill as many of them as possible. Stack 'em like cordwood. Victory was a high body-count, defeat a low kill-ratio, war a matter of arithmetic.

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You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

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Philip Caputo

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Born: June 10, 1941 (age 84)
Bio: Philip Caputo is an American author and journalist. He is best known for A Rumor of War, a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War.
Known for:
  1. A Rumor of War (1977)
  2. Acts of faith (2005)
  3. Ghosts of Tsavo (2002)
  4. Crossers (2009)

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