“There was a famous story, some reporters asked a door gunner, “How can you shoot women and children?” and he’d answered, “It’s easy, you just don’t lead ’em so much.”Michael Herr
“Out on the street I couldn’t tell the Vietnam veterans from the rock and roll veterans. The sixties had made so many casualties, its war and its music had run power off the same circuit for so long they didn’t even have to fuse.Michael Herr
“As one American major said, in a successful attempt at attaining history, “We had to destroy Ben Tre in order to save it.”Michael Herr