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I thought I should be stronger than was possible.

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Chris Kyle
Age: 38 †
Born: 1974
Born: April 8
Died: 2013
Died: February 2
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Navy Sailor
Sniper
Odessa
Texas
Christopher Scott Kyle
Christopher Kyle
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MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.
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Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.
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Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.
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But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.
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No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.
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I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.
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The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians they’re not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.
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You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
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I am not a fan of politics.
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In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It's about being a man. And it's about love as well as hate.
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Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.
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I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.
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There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.
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I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.
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I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.
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None of my problems come from the people I've killed.
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I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.
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I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
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