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Chapter Four
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Chapter 3
Dean's found that civilians react to ruptures in one of two ways -- forget about fight or flight, it's all booze or cruise. You either loosen your grip on your former life enough to leave or stay and end up fucking it all to hell anyway because you're too plastered to care.

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Chapter Two

Every unit wants to be assigned to a new hot zone. Dean's more cynical than most as to why.

First and most simply, you've got the gratitude.

When a hunting party rolls up in a newly ruptured town, they're greeted like Christ's returned, except with more sex and free drinks. The civilians are unused to the war except in the abstract, ( Read more... )

I went there behind the crude but serious belief that you had to be able to look at anything, serious because I acted on it and went, crude because I didn't know, and it took the war to teach it, that you were as responsible for everything you saw as you were for everything you did.

- Michael Herr, Dispatches

Chapter 1
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