“We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't...” – Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now ... Movie Quotes Database

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Colonel Walter E. Kurtz Marlon Brando

We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "****" on their airplanes because it's obscene!

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