War Stories: Summer of '69, Part 6 "Fever"

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Wednesday January 25, 2012 · 10:22 AM PST

2012/01/25 · 10:22

"War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead."

Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

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Tuesday January 24, 2012 · 3:18 PM PST

2012/01/24 · 15:18

"Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, 'how much should we give?'
Ooh they only answer, More! more! more! yoh!"

John Fogarty, Fortunate Son

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Tuesday January 24, 2012 · 6:07 AM PST

2012/01/24 · 06:07

"Modern infantry combat is inherently brutalizing. The enemy is naturally dehumanized. It was worse in Vietnam where the grunts, knowing they were expendable, forgotten, and doing what they did to no good end, had only their buddies to depend on and believe in. Everyone else was the enemy."

Keith W. Nolan, "Death Valley: The Summer Offensive , I Corps, August 1969"

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Monday January 23, 2012 · 5:29 AM PST

2012/01/23 · 05:29

"What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. When a guy dies....you look away and then look back for a moment and then look away again. The pictures get jumbled; you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes every story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it SEEMED."

Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

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Sunday January 22, 2012 · 5:25 PM PST

2012/01/22 · 17:25

"We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
'Cause girl there's a better life for me and you."

-Eric Burdon, "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"

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Sunday January 22, 2012 · 7:51 AM PST

2012/01/22 · 07:51

"Whoa, thought it was a nightmare,
Lo, it's all so true,
They told me don't go walkin' slow
Cause devil's on the loose."

John Fogarty, "Run Through the Jungle"

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War Stories: Summer of '69, Part 6 "Fever"

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War Stories: Summer of '69, Part 4 "Hell"

War Stories: Summer of '69, Part 3 "Friendly Fire"

War Stories: Summer of '69, Part 2 "Bouncing Betty"

War Stories: Summer of '69, Part 1 "Guns Up!"