Southlands Snuffys Quotes

“Yep, as my old pappy used to say, every man living has at least one flaw in his character and some have many for the perfect human is yet to be born. But a guy’s courage is a different matter aint it, a guy without courage is fucking useless in the same way as one who can’t keep his word is fucking useless. I guess what I am talking about here is honor, and a guy without honor just aint worth a goddamn to anyone.”

A sage-like moment, courtesy of Corporal "Bayou" Lejeune.

VC Lake, D 10 Special Zone, South Vietnam, in the fall of 67.”
― Sergeant Walker, Southlands Snuffys : Forest of Assassins - to - City of Hong Kong.

“There is great disadvantage in seeing the past as clearly as one sees the present, carrying in the mind visions of the past as vivid as on the day they happened.”
― Sergeant Walker, Southlands Snuffys : Forest of Assassins - to - City of Hong Kong.

“The vast majority of those who served alongside a Special Forces unit in the Southland of Vietnam during the war returned to the world forever hyper-suspicious of everyone and closed-mouthed as to what they had been doing out there in the shit. It would take many years, decades even, before they opened even a splintered crack of insight as to what they had endured, had suffered. Many never would, just carried their secrets from the war along with them to the grave.”
― Sergeant Walker, Southlands Snuffys : Forest of Assassins - to - City of Hong Kong.

“The quotes found within the Southlands Snuffys books pages powerfully convey the long-lasting psychological toll of the war on those who served in elite units. They highlight the often unspoken psychological burdens many carried during the conflict and long after the conflict ended.”
― Sergeant Walker, Southlands Snuffys : Forest of Assassins - to - City of Hong Kong.