Michael Herr quote: We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. ...

We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.

~ Michael Herr ~

Photo by Bri Schneiter

Photo by Pixabay

Photo by Ákos Szabó

Photo by Ian Turnell

Photo by Pixabay

Photo by Lisa from Pexels

Photo by Pixabay

We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machin...

Michael HerrDispatches

More Michael Herr quotes

"
Well, good luck,’ the Vietnam verbal tic...It was as though people couldn’t stop themselves from saying it, even when they actually meant to express t...

"
for years now there had been no country here but the war.

"
Take the glamour out of war! I mean, how the bloody hell can you do _that_? Go and take the glamour out of a Huey, go take the glamour out of a Sherid...

"
Some people think 1963's a long time ago; when a dead American in the jungle was an event, a grim thrilling novelty. It was spookwar then, adventure; ...