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Well, I heard some people talking just the other day
and they said you were gonna put me on a shelf.
But let me tell you I got some news for you and you'll soon find out it's true
and then you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself.
Cause I'm already gone and I'm feeling strong,
I will sing this victory song, woo, hoo, hoo, woo, hoo, hoo.
The letter that you wrote me made me stop and wonder why
but I guess you felt like you had to set things right.
Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky,
you can see the stars and still not see the light (that's right).
And I'm already gone and I'm feeling strong. I will sing this victory song.
Well, I know it wasn't you who held me down.
Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free.
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
and we never even know we have the key.
But me, I'm already gone and I'm feeling strong.
I will sing this victory song cause I'm already gone.
Yes, I'm already gone and I'm feeling strong.
I will sing this victory song cause I'm already gone.
Yes, I'm already gone, already gone, all right, nighty-night…
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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