War movies are as American as apple pie and violence. Sit back and enjoy a short list of some of the greatest war movies to grace the silver screen.
“Oh man … the bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it.”
“The thing that’s always worried me about being one of the few is the way we keep on getting fewer.”
“The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.”
“Gentlemen, no doubt you’ve heard the immortal words of our new commandant: devote your energies to things other than escape, and sit out the war as comfortably as possible.”
“Somebody once wrote, ‘Hell is the impossibility of reason.’ That’s what this place feels like. Hell.”
“You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.”
“What I mean by that, sir, is if you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile from Adolf Hitler … with a clean line of sight … Pack your bags, fellas. War’s over. Amen.”
“Remember, just because the krauts are dumb doesn’t mean that they’re stupid.”
Published: Nov 7, 2013 05:00 pm