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We All Want To Be Special, To Stand Out; There's Nothing Wrong With This. The Irony Is That Every Human Being Is Special To Start With, Because We're Unique To Start With. But We Then Go Through Some Sort Of Boot Camp From The Age Of Zero To About 18 Where We Learn Everything We Can About How Not To Be Unique.

Victory In Combat Is Like Sex With A Prostitute. For A Moment You Forget Everything In The Sudden Physical Rush, But Then You Have To Pay Your Money To The Woman Showing You The Door. You See The Dirt On The Walls And Your Sorry Image In The Mirror.

For Every Veteran Who Goes Through A Divorce, A Wife Goes Through One, Too. For Every Veteran Alone In The Basement, There Is A Wife Upstairs, Bewildered, Isolated And In Despair From The Dark Clouds Of War That Hangs Over Family Life.

How Could You Get Mad At Someone Who Neither Needed To Attack Nor Was At All Worried About Being Able To Defend? It Was Like Getting Mad At Switzerland.

The Marine Corps Taught Me How To Kill, But It Didn't Teach Me How To Deal With Killing.