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Willard said (speaking of the boys in the boat) that all they wanted to do was go home, but that he had been there and knew that they could never go back. They had seen the true reality of life, nature, the jungle. Thier eyes and hearts had been scared for life. How could any of them go home to thir familys in suburbia, the ghetto or a california beach after killing woman and children. Killing somthing that is a crime in "civilisation" but nessisary for survival in the jungle. THe horror is the terrible truth that life is rough violent and one must do whatever it takes to survive. The law of the jungle rules our lives also. Did the army want to terminate Kurtz' command because he killed 4 south vietnamise dubble agents? No he was not guilty of murder. He was guilty of not following the chain of command. Following the president. Following yet another man who had set himself up as god. The army created Kurtz and he was till the end a perfect soldier. He killed without single thought of morality, (which is useless in war) a true machivelian. So pure a soldier that the objective took presidence over everything, the army, the country, even his own life he placed on the alter of destruction. The army had raised the toughest dog on the block and let him off the leech in vietnam, but they couldnt put him back on. Such is the nature of war. once you start the fires of war they can not be extingished at will they will only ceace when they destroy all there is to burn and burn themselves out, even then the hot coals remain. Oh, the horror that this is our unavoidable fate, the horror that is the nature of man.

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: Willard said (speaking of the boys in the boat) that all they wanted to do was go home, but that he had been there and knew that they could never go back. They had seen the true reality of life, nature, the jungle. Thier eyes and hearts had been scared for life. How could any of them go home to thir familys in suburbia, the ghetto or a california beach after killing woman and children. Killing somthing that is a crime in "civilisation" but nessisary for survival in the jungle. THe horror is the terrible truth that life is rough violent and one must do whatever it takes to survive. The law of the jungle rules our lives also. Did the army want to terminate Kurtz' command because he killed 4 south vietnamise dubble agents? No he was not guilty of murder. He was guilty of not following the chain of command. Following the president. Following yet another man who had set himself up as god. The army created Kurtz and he was till the end a perfect soldier. He killed without single thought of morality, (which is useless in war) a true machivelian. So pure a soldier that the objective took presidence over everything, the army, the country, even his own life he placed on the alter of destruction. The army had raised the toughest dog on the block and let him off the leech in vietnam, but they couldnt put him back on. Such is the nature of war. once you start the fires of war they can not be extingished at will they will only ceace when they destroy all there is to burn and burn themselves out, even then the hot coals remain. Oh, the horror that this is our unavoidable fate, the horror that is the nature of man.

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