(3089/898) So it goes

171) Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.

Saying (c. 1970)

172) One day at the battalion aid station at Hue a Marine with minor shrapnel wounds in his legs was waiting to get on a helicopter, a long wait with all of the dead and badly wounded going out first, and a couple of sniper rounds snapped across the airstrip, forcing us to move behind some sandbagging. "I hate this movie," he said [...]

Michael Herr
Dispatches (1978)

173) There was a joke going around that went like this: "What's the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts?" "The Boy Scouts have adult leadership." Dig it! the grunts would say, digging it just as long as they didn't have to hear it from outsiders, from "non-essential personnel" like the Army or the Air Force. For them it was only good as a joke when it also had that touch of fraternal mystery. And what a fraternity! [...] (There was a week in the war, one week, when the Army lost more men killed, proportionately, than the Marines, and Army spokesmen had a rough time hiding their pride, their absolute glee.) And in the face of some new variation on old Marine disasters, it didn't much matter that you knew dozens of fine, fine officers. Something always went wrong somewhere, somehow. It was always something vague, unexplainable, tasting of bad fate, and the results were always the brought down to their most basic element - the dead Marine. The belief that one Marine was better than ten Slopes saw Marine squads fed in against known NVA platoons, platoons against companies, and on and on, until whole battalions found themselves pinned down and cut off. That belief was undying, but the grunt was not, and the Corps came to be called by many the finest instrument ever devised for the killing of young Americans.

Michael Herr
Dispatches (1978)

174) So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Slaughterhouse 5 (1969)

175) And so on.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Breakfast of Champions (1973)

Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 839 days remaining in the administration of the worst President ever.