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   What is the first casualty of war?

   • The first casualty of war is innocence. Somebody once wrote: ' Hell is the impossibility of reason.' That's what this place feels like. Hell. I hate it already and it's only been a week. Some god-damn week, Grandma. The hardest thing I think I've ever done is go on point three times this week - I don't even know what I'm doing.

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   Is truth the first casualty in war?

   • It has been well observed that truth is the first casualty in all war; women are perfectly aware that none of the belligerent countries have anything to boast of with regard to their treatment of women in either war or peace. The Extinction of Truth. In war, truth is at a discount and falsehood at a premium. James Douglas.

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   Was the saying “Truth is the first casualty” ancient?

   • QI has located no evidence that the saying was ancient: There is an ancient proverb, too, that in war “Truth is the first casualty.” There never was a war that was not started by falsehood. Misattributions are inadvertently facilitated whenever sayings are grouped closely together.

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   Does War Crush a person's innocence?

   • War, on the other hand, crushes one’s innocence, almost overnight. Most Americans from my generation have been spared from this. To be quite honest, the human mind isn’t built for the quick crushing of one’s innocence. I often think about the young man who goes to war.

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   Apr 11, 2020 · Here are four versions of a pertinent saying: Truth is the first casualty in war. The first casualty of war is truth. When war is declared, truth is the first victim. In war, truth is the first casualty. This adage has been credited to Aeschylus, Hiram Johnson, Arthur Ponsonby, and others.

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   Somebody once wrote: 'Hell is the impossibility of reason.' That's what this place feels like. Hell. I hate it already and it's only been a week.Some god-damn week, Grandma. The hardest thing I think I've ever done is go on point three times this week - I don't even know what I'm doing. A gook could be standing three feet in front of me and I would...

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   [to a wounded soldier]Shut up! Shut up, and take the pain! TAKE THE PAIN!

   (pointing to a dead soldier) You all take a good look at this lump of shit. Remember what it looks like. You fuck up in a firefight and I goddamn guarantee you a trip out of the bush, in a body bag...

   You talking about killing? Hmm? Y'all experts? Y'all know about killing? I'd like to hear about it, potheads. [takes pipe and sniffs] Are you smoking this shit so's to escape from reality? Me, I do...

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   King: Hey, Taylor, how in the fuck you get here anyway? You look educated.

   Chris Taylor: I volunteered for it.

   King: You did what?

   Chris: I volunteered. I dropped out of college, told 'em I wanted the infantry, combat, Vietnam.

   Crawford: You volunteered for this shit, man?

   Chris: Believe that?

   King: You's a crazy fucker, giving up college?

   Chris: Didn't make much sense, I wasn't learning anything. I figured why should just the poor kids go off to war and the rich kids always get away with it.

   King: Oh, I see, what we got here is a crusader.

   Crawford: Sounds like it.

   King: Shiiit, you gotta be rich in the first place to think like that. Ever'body know, the poor always being fucked over by the rich. Always have, always will.

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   The first casualty of war is innocence.

   The first real casualty of war is innocence. The first real movie about the war in Vietnam is Platoon.

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   Mar 10, 2024 · by Andrew P. Clifford The first casualty of war is innocence. You hear this phrase a lot when it comes to experiencing war. This saying is actually on the All of a sudden, you're middle-aged. Twenty years of living with the war just flew by. You think back and realize that you never honored yourself.

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   ‘The first casualty of war is innocence’, as the old line has it. Owen’s title, ‘Arms and the Boy’, wryly plays on the opening lines of Roman poet Virgil’s great epic The Aeneid: ‘Arms and the man I sing’. Whereas Virgil’s words usher in a poem detailing high heroic deeds and the founding of an empire (Aeneas was the ancestor ...

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   The first casualty of war is innocence. --Oliver Stone, Platoon. During World War II, Hollywood and the OWI (Office of War Information) made films that justified American involvement in that war. Films of the 1940s were high mimetic models of "morality" showing duty-bound American soldiers and civilians as righteous heroes fighting against ...

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   May 26, 2024 · 9780199539536. Published online: 2009. Current Online Version: 2009. eISBN: 9780191727740. Find at OUP.com. Google Preview. Truth is the first casualty of war. The originator of this saying is sometimes said to be Hiram Johnson, addressing the US Senate in 1918, ...

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   Nov 1, 1998 · Teaching the Vietnam War with the Greeks. In war, truth is the first casualty. The first casualty of war is innocence. Loyola Marymount University student Bridget Carberry, analyzing films of the Vietnam War and the historical perceptions of the post-Vietnam generation in an essay written last year, commented, "For those of us born during or in ...