- O'Brien: You know, I signed up in 69.
- O'Brien: I lied about my age, cause I didn't want to miss out on the action.
- O'Brien: My dad and his buddies, they served.
- O'Brien: All seemed like heroes to me.
- O'Brien: Infantry to sniper school to the jungle, just like that. Killed my first VC when I was 17.
- O'Brien: 612 yards in the rain, I'll never forget it.
- O'Brien: After that...
- O'Brien: They started falling so fast, I just lost track.
- O'Brien: I stopped killing for my country or my friends. I was killing for me.
- O'Brien: Married a great girl, two years after I got back stateside.
- O'Brien: My boy was born two years later.
- O'Brien: You know I tried to shake it, let all that go. But never could.
- O'Brien: Thought that if I taught it maybe it would lose its power. But never did.
- O'Brien: Took a discharge.
- O'Brien: Just... Drifted. I lost my bearings
- O'Brien: Not long after that, I lost my wife, I lost my boy.