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“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."

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"The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over."

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Four Americans
Dead, dead because of the war
Cries of peace heard loud.

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Unarmed Southern Vietnamese raped, killed, mutilated.

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"'Cause it means destruction of innocent lives
War means tears to thousands of mothers eyes"

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"We came in spastic
Like tameless horses
We left in plastic
As numbered corpses"

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"And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together"

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John Kerry, testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 23,1971.

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John Kerry, testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 23,1971.

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"We wish that a merciful God could wipe away our own memories of that service as easily as this administration has wiped their memories of us. But all that they have done and all that they can do by this denial is to make more clear than ever our own determination to undertake one last mission, to search out and destroy the last vestige of this barbaric war, to pacify our own hearts, to conquer the hate and the fear that have driven this country these last 10 years and more, and so when, in 30 years from now, our brothers go down the street without a leg, without an arm, or a face, and small boys ask why, we will be able to say "Vietnam" and not mean a desert, not a filthy obscene memory but mean instead the place where America finally turned and where soldiers like us helped it in the turning."

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"We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation."

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