War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good; war sucks.
CHRIS KYLEYou have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
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You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
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MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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But real life doesn’t travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn’t necessarily have that ‘all lived happily ever after’ bit. You have to work on where you’re going.
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I did want to be the top sniper.
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The media cause more problems than they do good.
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People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved that you remember. It’s the ones you couldn’t save. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever.
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I am not a fan of politics.
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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
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I don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.
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I’m just trying to get back to normal life.
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You’re not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There’s also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.
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Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.
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Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq.
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The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay.
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I don’t have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally – I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
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One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
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There’s no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless or jobless.
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After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
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I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I’ve done. I find it strange, but I also feel it’s my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.
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I’m trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it’s not just them at war – it’s also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.
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I’m just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.
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Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.
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I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.
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