Mark Bowden Quotes

To me, this says: 'I'm a survivor. I'm proud to be an American. Things like that left me amazed at how resilient those people are. - Mark Bowden

They literally worked until they dropped. - Mark Bowden

These people couldn't thank us enough. They had lost their employers, their homes, their cars, and here they were trying to give us what little bit they still had. One man had nothing but watermelon cut up, and he kept trying to give us some. - Mark Bowden

There's just a stench of things rotting, decaying - dead seafood, poultry, other things I can't talk about. It gets into your nose; it gets into your clothes. You can't get away from it. - Mark Bowden

There were signs everywhere saying, 'If you loot, we shoot,' ... The first looter we had, they had ripped his ear off. They really tore him up. - Mark Bowden

The tsunami did provoke an extraordinary response and got us thinking of new measures. - Mark Bowden

The question posed by Yossarian in 'Catch-22,' ... is one of the great questions of modern times: Is this huge industrial military that we've constructed, has it become more deadly and powerful than the cause for which is was constructed? - Mark Bowden

The Pentagon was officially displeased... 'Killing Pablo' tells a much murkier tale (than 'Black Hawk Down'), what with death squads and Pablo's sordid end. This being the second peek behind the walls at Ft. Bragg, it was received with considerably less good humor. - Mark Bowden

That's why I'm going to go back next year, to have a little reunion. I saw these people when they were down, and I want to see them when they rebuild. If they were this good when they were down, I can't wait to see what they do when they're back on the upswing. - Mark Bowden

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