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Somebody once wrote: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell.

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Platoon. Directed by Oliver Stone, Hemdale Film Corporation, 1986.

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I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy...was in us.

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I got no fight with any man who does what he's told, but when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down.

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I love this place at night. The stars...there's no right or wrong in them, they're just there.

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They come from the end of the line, most of 'em—small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee; Brandon, Mississippi; Pork Bend, Utah; Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it. Maybe if they're lucky, a job waiting for them back in a factory. But most of 'em got nothing. They're poor. They're the unwanted. Yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom. It's weird, isn't it? At the bottom of the barrel, they know it. Maybe that's why they call themselves "grunts", 'cause a grunt can take it—can take anything.