"I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting."

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“We make fun of them in front of their faces, and laugh at them for not understanding we are insulting them.”

“But if you are a conceited brown-nosing shit-bag, you will be allowed to do what ever you want, and you will be handed your higher rank.”

“The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of 'U.S. soldier' is just the lie of fools.”

“I am sorry for everything here. These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live. We don't even care when we hear each other talk about running their children down in the dirt streets with our armored trucks.”

“In the U.S. Army, you are cut down for being honest.”

“The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be American. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting.”

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