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I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. The enemy was in us.
— Platoon · 1986
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Reflecting on his time at war, the speaker concludes that the real conflict wasn't with an outside enemy but with internal struggles the soldiers carried into battle. It reframes the war as something fought against themselves as much as against any opposing army.
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