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A successful suicide doesn't just happen, although, of course, there are exceptions. Someone happens to be walking across a bridge when the feeling hits. Or they're on the roof of a building and realize they have nothing to live for. But most of the time, suicide takes planning. That's the way I figured. The was I was figuring...
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― Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir
― Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir
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Poor bastard, I thought, listening to him. He’s trying to hide from us. He’s dying, and he knows we want to kill him. What a fate: to gasp your life out all alone in the mud of a dirty little creek, helpless to hold off the slow death that is inside you and the quicker death that is walking up on you on the other side of the water. A death without love, a death without hope. God, who invented war?
But if he gets back alive, I may be dead.
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― Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
― Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
