Little_Dorrit 16 октября 2016 г., 10:36 Пожаловаться “We had one instructor,” I said, “who spent a class telling us about all the advertisement that went into us joining the Army and how dumb we were to fall for it. He’d say, ‘I love the Army. But how bullshit are those commercials?’ He was all about getting us to recognize the propaganda in civilian life so we could use… Развернуть Redeployment Фил Клей 3,8
Little_Dorrit 15 октября 2016 г., 12:20 Пожаловаться I don’t believe in this war no more,” Rodriguez told me. “People trying to kill you, everybody angry, everybody crazy all around you, smacking the shit out of people.” He paused, eyes downcast. “I don’t know what gets somebody killed, and what keeps them alive. Sometimes you can fuck up and it’s all right. Sometimes you… Развернуть Redeployment Фил Клей 3,8
Little_Dorrit 14 октября 2016 г., 12:20 Пожаловаться “Nikah mut’ah,” he said. “Shi’a allow temporary marriages. Shi’a marry a woman for an hour, the next day marry another.” “Oh,” I said. “Prostitution.” “Prostitution is illegal under Islam,” said the Professor. Redeployment Фил Клей 3,8
Little_Dorrit 16 октября 2016 г., 09:28 Пожаловаться “I had a parishioner whose six-month-old son developed a brain tumor. He watched his child go through intense suffering, chemotherapy, and finally a brutal, ungraceful death. Who would rather go through that than be in Ramadi?” I could see confusion on the faces of the Marines in the audience. That was good. I didn’t… Развернуть Redeployment Фил Клей 3,8
Shellty 1 ноября 2016 г., 22:25 Пожаловаться ...the sergeant major, like most people, needed death to be sensible. A reason for each casualty. I’d seen the same feeble theodicy at funerals in the civilian world. If lung disease, the deceased should be a smoker. If heart disease, a lover of red meat. Some sort of causality, no matter how tenuous, to sanitize it. As… Развернуть Redeployment Фил Клей 3,8
Shellty 1 ноября 2016 г., 22:25 Пожаловаться “I respect what you’ve been through,” he said. I took a sip of my beer. “I don’t want you to respect what I’ve been through,” I said. That confused him. “What do you want?” he said. I didn’t know. We sat and drank beer for a bit. “I want you to be disgusted,” I said. Redeployment Фил Клей 3,8
Shellty 1 ноября 2016 г., 22:23 Пожаловаться We took my combat pay and did a lot of shopping. Which is how America fights back against the terrorists. Redeployment Фил Клей 3,8