Sunrise Over Fallujah Quotes

"I seen a 240 take a guy's leg off from a hundred yards," a big-headed corporal said. "The whole leg came off and the sucker was just laying there on the ground, looking at his leg as he died." I...

"Tell her Sergeant Harris will take a shift by himself," Kennedy said. "They won't need the rest of us." "Yo, woman, you got a lot of mouth for a chick!" Harris said. "Glad you noticed it, Sergeant...

A guy from the 3rd, a big, thick-necked sergeant, was holding up a tube. It was an RPG launcher. "Ask them who this belongs to!" the sergeant barked at me. Did I look Iraqi to him? (4.93-94)

We rode deep into the night and into the early morning. The Kuwaiti desert, in spots, was beautiful. The rising sun spread like a brilliant egg flattening out. A distance away, we could see small d...

It was still dark when Jonesy woke me, shaking me by the shoulder. I opened my eyes. "What's up?" "You believe in God?" he asked. As I sat up I saw he was holding a flashlight in one hand and a sma...

I liked Jonesy even though I wasn't sure what he was talking about sometimes. Like when he asked me if I was a hero type. "No," I answered. "You tall—how tall are you?" "Six foot two.""A lot of t...

I kept my eyes away from the house we had searched. Over and over I told myself that the kid had used the rocket launcher, that he tried to kill Americans. Maybe even had already killed Americans,...

I had hoped Marla would come over, but she sat with some women from a PSYOP unit. What they did was work on the minds of the enemy. Sometimes they dropped leaflets, sometimes they did nasty little...