There was such a dense concentration of energy there [Vietnam], American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into an… - Michael Herr

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There was such a dense concentration of energy there [Vietnam], American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

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Michael David Herr (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was a writer and former war correspondent, best known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War.

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Soldier: You guys aught to do a story on me suntahm.
Herr: Why should we do a story about you?
Soldier: 'Cause I'm so fuckin' good, 'n' that ain' no shit, neither. Got me one hunnert 'n' fifty-se'en gooks kilt. 'N' fifty caribou. Them're all certified.

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