Fallen Angels Quotes

Fallen Angels Quotes

"I knew the real question wasn't about my knee. I thought the knee would be okay. The real question was what I was doing, what any of us were doing, in Nam."

"I couldn't tell if there was too much to see, or if my eyes were getting bad. Maybe I just didn't want to see some of the things I was seeing."

"There's only two kinds of people in Vietnam. People who are alert twenty-four hours a day, and people who are dead,"

"The guys that our artillery blew away didn't have a reason to die. They hadn't died facing the enemy. They just died because somebody else was scared, maybe careless. They died because they were in Nam, where being scared made you do things you would regret later. We were killing our brothers, ourselves."

"The war was different now. Nam was different. Jenkins had been outside of...
(read more)