"for years now there had been no country here but the war."
“How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?”
Dispatches, Herr
Thank you for listening. Chapter 6 might not have many pages but we found a few things to think about JVH finds some source material. Candy changes lead into gold.
The phrase "in country" can be found in Michael Herr's brilliant book DISPATCHES. It's also in Dennis Lehane's novel SMALL MERCIES....
“Right now the sun shines during the day, but it’s pretty gray seven months out of the year. Or maybe, I dunno, it was just gray in my house growing up. I think of my house after my mother died—maybe even when she was still alive—and it just feels like everything was the color of the sidewalk, even the air. But in-country? Vietnam?” He looks around the circle. “You’ve never seen the color green until you’ve seen Vietnam.”
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