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I'm no hero.

Did I start the damn war??

Automatically, Finnegan started going over today's lesson.

Capitalism rots from the core.

Did I start the damn war??

Who did??

That's a good one.

I thought I knew.

Why don't Uncle Sam mind his own fucken business??

I'll bet both together did.

I bet.

So fuck them both.

Goddamn.

Goddammit.

Just let me go home to Jersey, back to the shore, oh, Jesus, the shore.

The waves breakin in on you and your girl at night there on the warm beach in the moonlight.

If I hafta do this to stay alive by God I'll do it.

I hated the goddamn army from the first day I got in anyhow.

All pricks like Coughlin run it anyway, one way or another.

Fuck them.

He rolled over and tried to shut out the noise, now much louder.

He snuggled into the blanket.