I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

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I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Michael Herr

Dispatches · 1977

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Vietnam War

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1977

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Michael Herr

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Herr, Michael. "Colleagues." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, pt. 3.

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I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. — Michael Herr

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