"Aside from needing a helmet, flak jacket & armed guards, it really is getting better here"

"The night before, 30 other soldiers crowded around [the soldier] with questions for the senator. He wrote them all down. At the top of his note card was the question he got from nearly every one of his fellow soldiers:

"When are we going to get out of here?""

"You put a gun in my hand And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther When the fast bullets fly."
-- B. Dylan

"I don't want to draw conclusions, I'll leave that to yourself
Maybe you're still walking, maybe you're still talking
But every time I hear the news that old feeling comes back on
We're neck deep in the Big Muddy
And the damn fools keep yelling to push on."

-- Pete Seeger