'Each letter in this volume represents a human life,' (p. 12), Senator John McCain.
'My parents, like everyone with a child or a husband or a father in Vietnam, were hostages to the war,' (p.14), William Broyles Jr.
'Some things don't erode with the passage of time,' (p.15), William Broyles Jr.
'Well, in 360 days, I'll be home,' (p.38), 1Lt. Robert Salerni.
'I killed my first gooks last night - about 20 of them,' ((p.46), Lt. Desmond Barry, Jr.
'I think I'd be much happier helping people than fighting the gooks,' (p.63), Lance Corporal Cameron MacDonald.
'Last might I killed and everyone has been patting me on the back,' (pp. 94-5), 1Lt. James Simmen.
'I was thinking that I have never written to anyone about how much I like this country,' (p. 108), Sergeant Tom Fitzharris.
'We speak different languages, but we're all the same kind of people,' (p. 113), Chief warrant officer Bruce McInnes.
'This is an unusual time in our nation's history,' (p. 137), Captain Rodney R. Chastant.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
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