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Quote #7
What cards these Bravos are, what a grab-ass band of brothers. Okay, so maybe they aren't the greatest generation by anyone's standard, but they are surely the best of the bottom third percentile of their own somewhat muddled and suspect generation. (Shitty Movie.67)
Band of Brothers is a book by Stephen Ambrose and an equally amazing miniseries done by HBO in 2001. It chronicles the heroics and tragedies of Easy Company in WWII, and it shows some fine examples of human beings. Those men were part of what our country considers the "Greatest Generation," and to compare them with these horny, foul-mouthed, downtrodden kids is exactly what Fountain wants us to do.
Quote #8
Even harder was describing his sense that Shroom's death might have ruined him for anything else, because when he died? when I felt his soul pass right through me? I loved him so much right then, I don't think I can ever have that kind of love for anybody again. So what was the point of getting married, having kids, raising a family if you knew you couldn't give them your very best love? (Walk.7)
Poor kid. To think that all your love has been used up by the age of 19 is pretty dang depressing. But there's something to it: this is an experience of such naked reality that the fakeness of much everyday American life just can't really compete.
Quote #9
Rrrraaahhhhhxxxx-annnnnn, Sykes is screeching at the tops of his lungs, you don't have to, then he turns and starts chattering to the fans in row 8 about how much he loves the Bravos, hell yes he loves his boys like brothers, he's just a poor white dumbass from Coon Cove, Florida, but at least he's got the Army, hooah! (Vampires.20)
It's great that these guys can so openly express their love for each other. Okay, so Sykes is high as a kite on Valium, but maybe war does that to people. Maybe it makes you see and do the more important things in life, like telling people you love them without a hint of irony or shame.