Casualties of War

"Oh, you wanna take an attack posture wit' me? Yeah, you got a weapon. Clark got a weapon, Clark got a knife! We all got weapons! Anybody can blow anybody away, any second. Which is the way it ought to be. Always."

"A VC sympathizer can get killed real easy, don't you know that? Somebody stumbles, they don't mean to shoot you, they're sorry…friendly fuckin' casualty. I mean, a body bag's a body bag, right?"

"On the day I was born, my momma grunted. I popped out. Took one look around. "Shit!" I says. It's Two Creeks, Texas." So about eight years ago I'm still in Two Creeks. My wife's about to give birth to her first child. I took her to the hospital, natural thing to do. Well, she was refused admittance to this hospital on the basis of her race- which is, as you might guess, Negro. Next thing I know the baby ain't about to wait. And so my son is born on the goddamn floor of this hospital's reception room… Eriksson, I flipped the fuck out. I started turnin' over chairs, kickin' lamps- wasn't long before I was in jail. Now, wasn't I on the side of righteousness? So what was I doing in jail? What I was doing, let me advise you, was fixin' to shoot some mothafuckas working in that hospital, that's what I was doing."

"This goddamn thing's turnin' us on our heads, man! I mean, Just because any of us at any second might be blown away, everybody's acting like we can do anything, man! And it don't matter what we do! But I'm thinkin' maybe it's the other way around. You know, maybe the main thing is just the opposite. Because we might be dead in the next split second, we gotta be extra careful what we do. Jesus, man, maybe it matters more than we even know."

"Even in war… murder is murder."

"It's not the enemy you fight to kill, but the innocent you fail to save."

"Michael J. Fox - PFC Eriksson"

"Sean Penn - Sgt. Tony Meserve"

"Don Harvey - Cpl. Thomas E. Clark"

"John C. Reilly - PFC. Herbert Hatcher"

"Thuy Thu Le - Tran Thi Oanh/Girl on Bus"

"John Leguizamo - PFC. Antonio Diaz"

"Jack Gwaltney - PFC. Rowan"

"Erik King - Cpl. Brown"

"Ving Rhames - Lt. Reilly"

"Dan Martin - Hawthorne"

"Dale Dye - Capt. Hill"