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Like our Sergeant said when we were going out to war, 'Men! Fifty of you are leaving on a mission. Twenty five of you aint coming back!'
— Dazed and Confused · 1993
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker recounts a sergeant's grim announcement that half of the fifty men leaving on a mission wouldn't return. The bluntness of the math is the point: it's a stark, deadpan way to make the odds sink in, delivered as a memory of a leader's plain speaking.
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