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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.

Chris Kyle

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Chris Kyle
Age: 38 †
Born: 1974
Born: April 8
Died: 2013
Died: February 2
Autobiographer
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Navy Sailor
Sniper
Odessa
Texas
Christopher Scott Kyle
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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.
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At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.
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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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Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.
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It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.
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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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I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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If you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and they’re male, shoot ’em. Kill every male you see.
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You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.
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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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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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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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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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Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.
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None of my problems come from the people I've killed.
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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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Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.
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