The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they’re not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.
CHRIS KYLEI did want to be the top sniper.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good; war sucks.
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Just because war is hell doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun.
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I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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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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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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I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.
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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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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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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’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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I’m just trying to get back to normal life.
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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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What wounded veteran’s don’t need is sympathy. They need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.
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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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