“Oh man, the shit piled up so fast in Vietnam you needed wings to stay...” – Captain Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now ... Movie Quotes Database

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Captain Benjamin L. Willard Martin Sheen

Oh man, the shit piled up so fast in Vietnam you needed wings to stay above it.

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