Jarhead (2003) (edit title/settings)

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• “"This is my rifle, without my rifle I am nothing. Without me, my rifle is nothing."”

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• The warrior becomes the hero, and the society celebrates the death and destruction of war, two things the warrior never celebrates. The warrior celebrates the fact of having survived, not of killing Japs or Krauts or gooks or Russkies or ragheads.

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• The Corps always waits up for you. The Corps forgives your drunkenness and stupidity. The Corps encourages your brutality.

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• The problem with living through war is the false sense that after combat you are untouchable.

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• It took years for you to understand that the most complex and dangerous conflicts, the most harrowing operations, and the most deadly wars, occur in the head.

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• There’s no way a jarhead with that many dog tags—his name and SSN and blood type and religious preference stamped into so many pieces of metal, spread so far and wide—will die. This is the only true religion.

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• I told her that the problem with believing your country’s battle monuments and deaths are more important than those of other nations is that the enemy disappears, and it becomes as though the enemy never existed, that those names of dead men proudly carved on granite monuments cause a forgetting of the enemy, of the humans who died and fought in other cottons, and the received understanding of war changes so that the heroes from one’s

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• I remember being told I must remember and then for many years forgetting.

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• We are afraid, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want to fight. It occurs to me that we will never be young again.

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• Saudi Arabia

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• United States Marine Corps: Add a description of this organization.
• Surveillance and Target Acquisition (STA)

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1. Anthony Swofford (Author)

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• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
• Books › History › Military › Iraq War

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