John Musgrave > Quotes

“Over those two days, I scoured the earth for some trace of my time in Vietnam. To my immense disappointment, I could find nothing. It was as if the place in which I had fought and starved and bled and lost friends had never existed.”
― John Musgrave, The Education of Corporal John Musgrave: Vietnam and Its Aftermath

“When you were out in the bush and someone screamed, it was easy to tell the difference between someone who was scared and someone who'd been hit bad. There's both pain and terror in the scream when someone gets hit. Suddenly I heard someone screaming that way, and, God, it sounded so fucking horrible, and I couldn't figure out who it was. Then, and instant later, my mind caught up with my body, and I realized the scream was coming from me.”
― John Musgrave, The Education of Corporal John Musgrave: Vietnam and Its Aftermath