There was a famous story, some reporters asked a door gunner, "How can you shoot women and children?" and he'd answered, "It's easy, you just don't lead 'em so much."

Michael Herr

Dispatches

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Vietnam War

Author

Michael Herr

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Dispatches

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War literature War

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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United States

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Herr, Michael. "Breathing In." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, pt. 3.

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Time
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