David Finkel Quotes

#1. Congratulations for conquering PTSD. And now you're fucked.

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#2. It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emotions? Does the army teach us how to deal with a friend bleeding out in front of you? No.

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#3. Everywhere on this day, the after-war continues, as eternally as war itself,

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#4. impotency; many developed

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#5. The thought that the bullet has already been fired at each of us and it is only a matter of time when it will hit, brings comfort to some and terror to others.

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#6. To be a soldier in combat was to fall in love constantly,

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#7. He knew America, and even though he hadn't been there in fifteen years, he knew what its soldiers liked because of what one of them had written on the door of a metal locker that was in the room he'd been given to live in. "Sex, potato soup, and Johnny Cash," it said.

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#8. And a hero isn't someone who doesn't feel fear, they're someone who in spite of their fear does the right thing and really risks their own safety,

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#9. He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.

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#10. To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise

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#11. Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought?

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#12. But you can gift wrap a piece of shit and it's still a piece of shit.

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