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Mark Bowden Quote: “There were splits within families over the present war, where one son had sided with Saigon and the other with Hanoi. The “liberation” of Hue suspended law and order and upended basic decency, giving retribution an official stamp of approval. It tapped a deep vein of savagery. In.”

101. “There were splits within families over the present war, where one son had sided with Saigon and the other with Hanoi. The “liberation” of Hue suspended law and order and upended basic decency, giving retribution an official stamp of approval. It tapped a deep vein of savagery. In.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “Garrison wrote in his memo to Hoar. “There is no place in Mogadishu we cannot go and be successful in a fight. There are plenty of places we can go and be stupid.”

102. “Garrison wrote in his memo to Hoar. “There is no place in Mogadishu we cannot go and be successful in a fight. There are plenty of places we can go and be stupid.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “Listen,” Struecker said. “I understand how you feel. I’m married, too. Don’t think of yourself as a coward. I know you’re scared. I’m scared shitless. I’ve never been in a situation like this either. But we’ve got to go. It’s our job. The difference between being a coward and hero is not whether you’re scared, it’s what you do while you’re scared.”

103. “Listen,” Struecker said. “I understand how you feel. I’m married, too. Don’t think of yourself as a coward. I know you’re scared. I’m scared shitless. I’ve never been in a situation like this either. But we’ve got to go. It’s our job. The difference between being a coward and hero is not whether you’re scared, it’s what you do while you’re scared.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “He was disappointed on his first Vietnam tour in 1965 when he’d seen little action. Now, with his own company, he was eager to be put to use. His ears stuck out on either side of his high-and-tight and he wore US Marine Corps–issued glasses in thick black plastic frames. In his wallet, he carried a formal portrait of his wife, Missy, and daughter, Marianne, both wearing pink. The politics of the war didn’t concern him at all. He was a marine; there was a war on.”

104. “He was disappointed on his first Vietnam tour in 1965 when he’d seen little action. Now, with his own company, he was eager to be put to use. His ears stuck out on either side of his high-and-tight and he wore US Marine Corps–issued glasses in thick black plastic frames. In his wallet, he carried a formal portrait of his wife, Missy, and daughter, Marianne, both wearing pink. The politics of the war didn’t concern him at all. He was a marine; there was a war on.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “Tanks were vulnerable unless surrounded by infantry to prevent attackers from getting too close, so he ordered his men off the trucks – which offered little cover anyway.”

105. “Tanks were vulnerable unless surrounded by infantry to prevent attackers from getting too close, so he ordered his men off the trucks – which offered little cover anyway.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “While in the United States and Europe “revolution” was an excuse to sell pop music, stage protests, and hold festivals, it was being played for keeps in Asia. Young people were not just challenging their elders but pushing them aside, expelling, imprisoning, and in many cases executing them, all the while extolling the young as the righteous vanguard, their very youth a badge of purity. They were, by definition, forward-thinking. And in Hue they were armed.”

106. “While in the United States and Europe “revolution” was an excuse to sell pop music, stage protests, and hold festivals, it was being played for keeps in Asia. Young people were not just challenging their elders but pushing them aside, expelling, imprisoning, and in many cases executing them, all the while extolling the young as the righteous vanguard, their very youth a badge of purity. They were, by definition, forward-thinking. And in Hue they were armed.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “Two hundred and fifty American marines and soldiers were killed, and 1,554 wounded.75 Another 458 ARVN soldiers were killed and an estimated 2,700 wounded. The Front’s losses are estimated to have been between 2,400 and 5,000 – the difference between the official counts of both sides, both known to lie about such numbers. When.”

107. “Two hundred and fifty American marines and soldiers were killed, and 1,554 wounded.75 Another 458 ARVN soldiers were killed and an estimated 2,700 wounded. The Front’s losses are estimated to have been between 2,400 and 5,000 – the difference between the official counts of both sides, both known to lie about such numbers. When.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “Pretty girls were not perceived as a threat in the city. They moved around freely. They could watch the military and police posts, mapping entrances and exits, defenses, and gun positions, and noting the enemy’s numbers and routines.”

108. “Pretty girls were not perceived as a threat in the city. They moved around freely. They could watch the military and police posts, mapping entrances and exits, defenses, and gun positions, and noting the enemy’s numbers and routines.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “When war starts, a soldier wants like hell to be there, but once he’s there, he wants like hell to come home.”

109. “When war starts, a soldier wants like hell to be there, but once he’s there, he wants like hell to come home.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “So making him rattled and weary became a strategy.”

110. “So making him rattled and weary became a strategy.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “It was hard to keep track. If Durant wasn’t on a real mission like this one, he was off somewhere in the world practicing for one. Practice defined the lives of the Night Stalkers. They practiced everything, even crashing.”

111. “It was hard to keep track. If Durant wasn’t on a real mission like this one, he was off somewhere in the world practicing for one. Practice defined the lives of the Night Stalkers. They practiced everything, even crashing.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “So for Ho, the point of war was to force the United States to negotiate.”

112. “So for Ho, the point of war was to force the United States to negotiate.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “Man, God really does love medics.”

113. “Man, God really does love medics.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “But what if the death toll – which despite the distortions clearly favored the Americans – was having the opposite effect? What if heightened punishment by US bombs and guns actually fueled Communist resistance, inspiring ten recruits for every dead enemy fighter?”

114. “But what if the death toll – which despite the distortions clearly favored the Americans – was having the opposite effect? What if heightened punishment by US bombs and guns actually fueled Communist resistance, inspiring ten recruits for every dead enemy fighter?”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “The ratio of men killed in battle is becoming more favorable to our side. From a little better than two to one last January, the ratio has climbed to more than six to one in favor of our side.”20 Westy argued that the ratio so heavily favored allied forces that in time the mounting toll would buckle Hanoi’s resolve.”

115. “The ratio of men killed in battle is becoming more favorable to our side. From a little better than two to one last January, the ratio has climbed to more than six to one in favor of our side.”20 Westy argued that the ratio so heavily favored allied forces that in time the mounting toll would buckle Hanoi’s resolve.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “Never in America’s history, though – however many sideburns Bowery barbers shaved or immigrants came ashore – had a losing presidential candidate argued that the whole nation had been swindled. When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, his victory so outraged his opposition that an entire region of the country broke away. But in loss Stephen A. Douglas never claimed the election was “rigged.”

116. “Never in America’s history, though – however many sideburns Bowery barbers shaved or immigrants came ashore – had a losing presidential candidate argued that the whole nation had been swindled. When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, his victory so outraged his opposition that an entire region of the country broke away. But in loss Stephen A. Douglas never claimed the election was “rigged.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “He was convinced that men lost their nerve in combat when they allowed themselves to think too much. The part movies never got right about war was all the waiting, and all the effort it took not to think.”

117. “He was convinced that men lost their nerve in combat when they allowed themselves to think too much. The part movies never got right about war was all the waiting, and all the effort it took not to think.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “Local recruits made regular night trips past villages on the city’s outskirts just to make guard dogs bark, which became such a nightly occurrence that few paid attention to it anymore – either that or the dogs would grow so accustomed they no longer stirred.”

118. “Local recruits made regular night trips past villages on the city’s outskirts just to make guard dogs bark, which became such a nightly occurrence that few paid attention to it anymore – either that or the dogs would grow so accustomed they no longer stirred.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “It was the way he lived. He could walk out of that building at a moment’s notice and leave behind no personal trace.”

119. “It was the way he lived. He could walk out of that building at a moment’s notice and leave behind no personal trace.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “Tran Thi Thu Van, the writer from Saigon, spent those weeks wandering in the wasteland of the battle trying to stay alive. She would later record scene after scene of horror in her book Mourning Headband for Hue.”

120. “Tran Thi Thu Van, the writer from Saigon, spent those weeks wandering in the wasteland of the battle trying to stay alive. She would later record scene after scene of horror in her book Mourning Headband for Hue.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “Hanoi’s leaders were virtuoso songbirds of propaganda. They lived in a bubble. There were no voices of dissent in their society to check or challenge wishful thinking.”

121. “Hanoi’s leaders were virtuoso songbirds of propaganda. They lived in a bubble. There were no voices of dissent in their society to check or challenge wishful thinking.”

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Mark Bowden Quote: “Bowman immediately went to work, writing furiously in his notepad. A staff colonel asked what he was doing, and the major said, “I’m making a wish list.” If he’d read the scene correctly, he said, “We are going to get called in to see General Tolson in about fifteen minutes, and we’re about to get everything we need.”

122. “Bowman immediately went to work, writing furiously in his notepad. A staff colonel asked what he was doing, and the major said, “I’m making a wish list.” If he’d read the scene correctly, he said, “We are going to get called in to see General Tolson in about fifteen minutes, and we’re about to get everything we need.”

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