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I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in Iraq. Dog-eared, with broken spines, speckled with dirt, food, and even a little blood, most of the copies were marked up with notes in the margins. The better the book, the worse it looked--that's the way it should be. As I saw it, they were almost more like diaries than books.
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― Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir
― Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir
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Poor bastard, I thought, listening to him. He’s trying to hide from us. He’s dying, and he knows we want to kill him. What a fate: to gasp your life out all alone in the mud of a dirty little creek, helpless to hold off the slow death that is inside you and the quicker death that is walking up on you on the other side of the water. A death without love, a death without hope. God, who invented war?
But if he gets back alive, I may be dead.
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― Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
― Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
