“If that's how Kilgore fought the war, I began to wonder what they...” – Captain Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now ... Movie Quotes Database

Captain Benjamin L. Willard Martin Sheen

If that's how Kilgore fought the war, I began to wonder what they really had against Kurtz. It wasn't just insanity and murder, there was enough of that to go around for everyone.

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Captain Benjamin L. Willard Oh man, the shit piled up so fast in Vietnam you needed wings to stay above it. Captain Benjamin L. Willard No wonder Kurtz put a weed up Command's ass. The war was being run by a bunch of four star clowns who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away. Captain Benjamin L. Willard It's a way we had over here with 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.