"War stories arent really anything more than stories about people anyway."
Michael David Herr was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War. The book was called "the best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" by fellow author C.D.B. Bryan in his review for The New York Times Book Review. Novelist John le Carré called it "the best boo
"There was such a dense concentration of energy there [Vietnam], American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years."
"Black sergeant: You a reporter? Herr: No, a writer. Black sergeant: Careful. You cant use no eraser up where you wanna go."
"Mal Hombre: God damn it, Sergeant. I thought you were a professional soldier. Sergeant: I waited as long as I could, Sir. Any longer, and I was gonna lose my man. Mal Hombre: This outfit is perfectly capable of taking care of its own dirty laundry. Is that clear, Sergeant? Sergeant: Colonel, since when is a wounded trooper dirty laundry?"
"Soldier: You guys aught to do a story on me suntahm. Herr: Why should we do a story about you? Soldier: Cause Im so fuckin good, n that ain no shit, neither. Got me one hunnert n fifty-seen gooks kilt. N fifty caribou. Themre all certified."
"I think that Vietnam is what we had instead of happy childhoods."
"Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, weve all been there."