Oh man... the bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it.
Read more Captain Benjamin L. Willard QuotesFrom: Apocalypse Now
Well, he wasn't a bad officer, I guess. He loved his boys, and he felt safe with 'em. He was just one of those guys with that weird light around him. He just knew he wasn't gonna get so much as a scratch here.
They train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it is obscene.
It's a way we had over here for living with ourselves. We cut 'em in half with a machine gun and give 'em a Band-Aid. It was a lie. And the more I saw them, the more I hated lies.