You can take it because you got no choice. How'd you like to spend 48 hours of it lyin' in some muddy ditch... with nothing but the rotten corpses
of your friends to keep you company?
I was in 'Nam back in '72. I was trapped behind enemy lines with my entire squad dead. They thought they had killed everyone.
Except for me, they was right.
But it wasn't for their lack of tryin'. A grenade blew up right beside me.
That's why I'm so pretty.
And they started pushin' all them bodies in on top of me... and all I could do was lay there,
play possum... listen to the enemy joke, laugh.
Hour after hour after hour
I lay--
So I finally climbed out of this hole... and I sneaked up on the enemy while he was sleepin'... and I killed one, two, three, four, five--
When I came to my senses.. I realized I'd killed an entire V.C. squad single-handed. There was blood... and chunks of yellow flesh clinging to my post-it peg..
..And then I woke up