Michael Herr Quotes

I Keep Thinking About All The Kids Who Got Wiped Out By Seventeen Years Of War Movies Before Coming To Vietnam To Get Wiped Out For Good. You Don't Know What A Media Freak Is Until You've Seen The Way A Few Of Those Grunts Would Run Around During A Fight When They Knew That There Was A Television Crew Nearby; They Were Actually Making War Movies In Their Heads, Doing Little Guts-and-glory Leatherneck Tap Dances Under Fire, Getting Their Pimples Shot Off For The Networks. They Were Insane, But The War Hadn't Done That To Them. Most Combat Troops Stopped Thinking Of The War As An Adventure After Their First Few Firefights, But There Were Always The Ones Who Couldn't Let That Go, These Few Who Were Up There Doing Numbers For The Cameras ... We'd All Seen Too Many Movies, Stayed Too Long In Television City, Years Of Media Glut Had Made Certain Connections Difficult.

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