War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good; war sucks.
CHRIS KYLEAfter I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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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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I don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.
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But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.
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In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq. That’s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy ‘savages.’ There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.
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I’m just trying to get back to normal life.
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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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It’s funny – sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can’t really be there for the people they love. I’ve felt it myself.
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I don’t know if I’m the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn’t be.
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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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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 am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.
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I did want to be the top sniper.
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In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It’s about being a man. And it’s about love as well as hate.
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