Casualties of War 1989 quotes, page 2

Why the Hell didn't you just let that girl go when you had the chance?! In fact if you wanted to save her so badly, why didn't you just shoot the other members of your patrol and be done with it?!

Eriksson

I thought about it.

But you didn't do it, did you?! Because you were watching out for your own sweet ass is why you didn't do it.

Eriksson

I probably should have shot him! Yeah, I probably should have shot Clark! And Meserve. Yeah, I probably should have shot them, yes, sir! Instead of what I did, which was nothing! They killed her, sir. I MEAN THEY **** KILLED HER!

Sgt. Tony Meserve

A VC sympathizer can get killed real easy, don't you know that? Somebody stumbles, they don't mean to shoot you, they're sorry…friendly ****in' casualty. I mean, a body bag's a body bag, right?

Sgt. Tony Meserve

Brownie, look into my ****in' eyes I'm gonna hypnotize you. YOU'RE FINE!

Sgt. Tony Meserve

Oh, you wanna take an attack posture wit' me? Yeah, you got a weapon. Clark got a weapon, Clark got a knife! We all got weapons! Anybody can blow anybody away, any second. Which is the way it ought to be. Always.

Second Lieutenant Reilly

On the day I was born, my momma grunted. I popped out. Took one look around. "Shit!" I says. It's Two Creeks, Texas." So about eight years ago I'm still in Two Creeks. My wife's about to give birth to her first child. I took her to the hospital, natural thing to do. Well, she was refused admittance to this hospital on the basis of her race- which is, as you might guess, Negro. Next thing I know the baby ain't about to wait. And so my son is born on the goddamn floor of this hospital's reception room… Eriksson, I flipped the **** out. I started turnin' over chairs, kickin' lamps- wasn't long before I was in jail. Now, wasn't I on the side of righteousness? So what was I doing in jail? What I was doing, let me advise you, was fixin' to shoot some motha****as working in that hospital, that's what I was doing.

Sgt. Tony Meserve

Some mad ****in' minute, huh cherry?

Private Eriksson

This goddamn thing's turnin' us on our heads, man! I mean, Just because any of us at any second might be blown away, everybody's acting like we can do anything, man! And it don't matter what we do! But I'm thinkin' maybe it's the other way around. You know, maybe the main thing is just the opposite. Because we might be dead in the next split second, we gotta be extra careful what we do. Jesus, man, maybe it matters more than we even know.

Sgt. Tony Meserve

This is a weapon, this is a gun. This is for fighting, this is for fun.

Sgt. Tony Meserve

Yea though I walk through the valley of evil, I will fear no death. Cuz I'm the meanest mother****er in the valley.