My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little. Anthony Swofford More Quotes by Anthony Swofford More Quotes From Anthony Swofford 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. Anthony Swofford war believe son It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not. Anthony Swofford weapons use war My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. Anthony Swofford boredom despair loneliness Every war is different. Every war is the same. Anthony Swofford different 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. Anthony Swofford joints writing long I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like. Anthony Swofford responsibility past thinking If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead. Anthony Swofford disappointment hurt people It occured to me that we will never be young again. Anthony Swofford be-young young
