War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good; war sucks.
CHRIS KYLEBut I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.
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I’m just trying to get back to normal life.
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Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq.
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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 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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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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No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.
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It’s not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That’s not a problem at all.
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I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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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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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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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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I really don’t care what people think of me.
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I really don’t care what people think of me. I’ve got my family. I’ve got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don’t go around thumping 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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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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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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The media cause more problems than they do good.
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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 would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.
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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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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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Great way to fight a war – be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
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I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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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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