Eric’s Reviews > Dispatches > Status Update

"Those who remember the past are condemned to repeat it too, that's a little history joke."

"I remembered the way a Phantom pilot had talked about how beautiful the surface-to-air missiles looked as they drifted up toward his plane to kill him, and remembered myself how lovely .50-caliber tracers could be, coming at you as you flew at night in a helicopter, how slow and graceful, arching up easily, a dream, so remote from anything that could harm you. It could make you feel a total serenity... "

"Like every American in Vietnam, he had his obsession with Time."

"... existential crunch... "