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It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back.

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It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.

Killers, Mrs, Use, War, Weapons
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A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son’s diaper; his hands remember the rifle.

Believe, Hands, House, Son, War

Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in this joint. So, I'd say, experiment with how you tell the story. In the best memoir it's not the what, it's how the writer tells the what - meaning and effect through form.

1920S, American, Long, Stories, Writing

My combat action has commenced. . . I've pissed my pants, but only a little.

Action, Combat, Littles, Pants, Pissed

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Boredom, Despair, Loneliness

Every war is different. Every war is the same.

Different, Same, War
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