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• The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

  Sebastian Junger

  Soldier, Brotherhood, Battle

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• El ejército puede joderte y tu novia puede dejarte y el enemigo puede matarte, pero el compromiso compartido de salvaguardar la vida del otro es innegociable y sólo se profundiza con el tiempo. La voluntad de morir por otra persona es una forma de amor que ni siquiera las religiones logran inspirar, y la experiencia de ello cambia profundamente a una persona.

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  Girlfriend, Commitment, Army

  "Failing the Voight-Kampff" by Dylan Ratigan, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2013.

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• In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker who not only illuminates war for civilians, but also offers a kind of spiritual guidance to vets themselves. As this generation of warriors comes home, they will be enormously helped by what Marlantes has written. I’m sure he will literally save lives.

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  Spiritual, War, Eye

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• La guerra es la vida multiplicada por algún número del que nadie ha oído hablar.

  Sebastian Junger

  Día de los Veteranos, Militar, Guerra

  "War". Book by Sebastian Junger, www.hoover.org. 2010.

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• Cada ronda de Javelin cuesta 80.000 dólares, y la idea de que la dispare un tipo que no gana eso en un año a otro que no gana eso en toda su vida es de alguna manera tan escandalosa que casi hace que la guerra parezca ganable.

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  War, Winning, Fire

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• The most profound question is, "What would I risk dying for?" The natural answer is "for my family." But for most of history, we didn't live in families. We lived in small communities that gave us our sense of safety and place in the world, so the natural answer would be "for my people." The blessing and the tragedy of modern life is that we don't need our community to survive anymore. When we lose that idea, we lose a sense of who we are.

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  Blessing, People, Safety

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Durante la guerra aérea de 1944, la tripulación de un bombardero B-17 se comprometió a no abandonarse nunca por desesperada que fuera la situación. Durante una misión, el avión fue alcanzado por fuego antiaéreo, entró en picado y el piloto ordenó a todos que saltaran. El artillero de la torreta superior obedeció la orden, pero el artillero de la torreta esférica descubrió que un fragmento de fuego antiaéreo había atascado su torreta y no podía salir. Los otros tres hombres de su pacto podrían haber saltado en paracaídas, pero se quedaron con él hasta que el avión tocó tierra y explotó. Todos murieron.

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  Muerte, Guerra, Hombres

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• An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

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  Adventure, Fate, Outcomes

  Sebastian Junger (2001). “Fire”, p.166, W. W. Norton & Company

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• At 19, your brain hasn't finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don't go through that at 19. Soldiers do. They're facing life in this accelerated, compressed form, and a lot of times, they're not ready for it.

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  Good Friend, People, Soldier

  "Oscar Nominee Sebastian Junger Speaks About His Year in Deadliest Place on Earth". Interview With Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.

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  Men, Order, Games

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• Los soldados se alistan en el ejército para servir a su país, pero cuando vuelan las balas, es difícil luchar por una noción abstracta como el patriotismo. Luchan por las personas que están a su lado, y no importa quién sea republicano o demócrata, o quién sea negro o blanco o cristiano o musulmán o gay o heterosexual. Si el Congreso y todos los estadounidenses consiguieran ignorar esas diferencias, tendríamos un país perfecto, pero de algún modo no podemos llegar a ese nivel de nobleza.

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  Cristiano, País, Militar

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• One interesting thing I found was that if you take an affluent modern society and collapse it during a crisis, like a war or a natural disaster, people begin relating in a more ancient, organic way. They're functioning in small interdependent groups and putting others first. And another irony is that even in terrible times, cooperating makes people feel good.

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  Guerra, Gente, Interesante

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

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  Self, Risk, Way

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• Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Missing, Soldier

  Twitter post from Dec 07, 2015

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• No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

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  Jobs, War, Gun

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• Creo que, por desgracia, vivimos en un mundo en el que la gente ataca a otra gente y creo que una razón legítima para la guerra es salvar vidas humanas, salvar vidas de personas que no pueden defenderse por sí mismas.

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  Guerra, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Journalist Sebastian Junger". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 10, 2011.

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• A menudo la gente que vive el trauma siente nostalgia cuando se acaba. Cuando volví a Bosnia 20 años después de la brutal guerra civil, incluso personas que habían resultado gravemente heridas me dijeron que echaban de menos aquellos tiempos. Echaban de menos su yo más valiente.

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  War, People, Missing

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

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  Dirty, Thinking, Objectivity

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Ironically, though our society of affluence brings safety and stability, it doesn't bring psychological health. As wealth goes up, suicide and depression rates tend to go up. I read one study that compared women in North America with women in Nigeria, and the group with the highest rates of depression was urban North American women, which is the wealthiest. Now, there are obviously huge stresses that come with poverty, but the poorer the society, the more collaborative people have to be.

  Sebastian Junger

  Suicide, Stress, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Los efectos negativos del combate fueron pesadillas, y me ponía nerviosa con ciertos ruidos y cosas, pero eso te pasa después de un accidente de coche o un mal divorcio. La vida está llena de traumas. No hace falta ir a la guerra para descubrirlo. Todos lidiamos con ello, y los efectos desaparecen después de un tiempo. Al menos a mí me pasó.

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  War, Divorce, Car

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, film.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

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  War, Useless, Exciting

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• Bad news is dramatic. It makes good TV. If there's a firefight on the same day that a school opens up, the media will show the firefight even though the school is way more important and will affect the community for much longer.

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  School, Media, Community

  "Oscar Nominee Sebastian Junger Speaks About His Year in Deadliest Place on Earth". Interview With Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Right now, America doesn't ask us to do anything besides pay taxes. We don't even have to vote. But as psychologists will tell you, when you have to sacrifice for something, you value it more. What about national service for young people? Everybody between 18 and 24 could spend a year or two working for this country in some capacity. It'd be an amazing thing. And it would mix this country racially, culturally, economically.

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  Patria, Sacrificio, Gente

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors

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  Warrior, Coward, Overcoming

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• I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

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  War, Thinking, Should Have

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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