Sunday, December 1, 2019

Sunday Sentence: Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim O’Brien


Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.


My buddies were grunts, 11-Bravo, and they did the daily, nasty, grinding, lethal work of war. They slept in the rain; they fought the firefights; they spent their nights lying in ambush and their days trudging through minefields out on the Batangan Peninsula; they were not cooks or clerks or mechanics or supply specialists; they were infantry; they lived in the war, and the war lived in them, and fifty years ago they did your killing and your dying for you.


from Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim O’Brien


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