Shooting the Moon Quotes

My brother, TJ, was going to war, and I was fired up hotter than a volcano. TJ and I had grown up in the Army, we were the Colonel's children, but that was not the same as being a soldier in the ve...

"I think you're wrong," I said, and felt even more determined to learn how to develop TJ's film. Then the true story would come out, with TJ at the center of it, the hero of it all. (4.32)

I was six months away from turning thirteen and I thought I knew everything. (1.46)

"College is the coward's way out, sir. How can I go to college when guys I played football with are fighting in Vietnam? Eddie McNeil's missing in action." (2.25)

"I'm Army through and through," I told him. "I mean it, if they'd let me go to Vietnam tomorrow, I'd go. I could be an ambulance driver or something like that." (1.34)

Not that I cared what people thought about my appearance. But even if I wasn't pretty in an obvious way, if my hair was just-barely-blond instead of a golden yellow, if my eyes were gray instead of...

TJ unwrapped a piece of gum he'd had in his jeans pocket and folded up the foil wrapper into a shiny triangle. He chewed the gum for a minute, then stuck it to the foil triangle and stuck the trian...

The Colonel had been an Army brat too, and he loved telling the story of how the Army had lifted his father up from poverty to a good life. (2.14)