History Quotes / BlownAcrosstheRoom

->''"Among the grunts, some carried the M-79 grenade launcher, 5.9 pounds unloaded, a reasonably light weapon except for the ammunition, which was heavy. A single round weighed 10 ounces. The typical load was 25 rounds. But Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried 34 rounds when he was [[BoomHeadshot shot]] and killed outside [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Than Khe]], and he went down under an exceptional burden, more than 20 pounds of ammunition, plus the flak jacket and helmet and rations and water and toilet paper and tranquilizers and all the rest, plus the unweighed fear. He was dead weight. There was no twitching or flopping. Kiowa, who saw it happen, said it was like watching a rock fall, or a big sandbag or something -- just boom, then down -- [[ThisIsReality not like the movies where the dead guy rolls around and does fancy spins and goes ass over teakettle]] -- not like that, Kiowa said, the poor bastard just flat-fuck fell. Boom. Down. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Nothing else.]]"''

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->''"Among the grunts, some carried the M-79 grenade launcher, 5.9 pounds unloaded, a reasonably light weapon except for the ammunition, which was heavy. A single round weighed 10 ounces. The typical load was 25 rounds. But Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried 34 rounds when he was [[BoomHeadshot shot]] and killed outside [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Than Khe]], and he went down under an exceptional burden, more than 20 pounds of ammunition, plus the flak jacket and helmet and rations and water and toilet paper and tranquilizers and all the rest, plus the unweighed fear. He was dead weight. There was no twitching or flopping. Kiowa, who saw it happen, said it was like watching a rock fall, or a big sandbag or something -- just boom, then down -- [[ThisIsReality not like the movies where the dead guy rolls around and does fancy spins and goes ass over teakettle]] -- not like that, Kiowa said, the poor bastard just flat-fuck fell. Boom. Down. [[RealityEnsues Nothing else.]]"''

-->-- ''Literature/TheThingsTheyCArried'', Tim O'Brien

-->--'''JimSterling''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-eHJ-XmOZM on]] ''VideoGame/{{Hydrophobia}}'' (2014)

-> Projectile weapons (eg .44 magnum) exert less force than a punch from a ballerina. If you find this astonishing, I suggest you retire to a zen garden with a rubber ball and recite Newton's Third Law of Motion until you attain enlightenment.
-->-- '''Kakos Daimon''', ''Black Library Forums''

-->-- ''RainbowSix''

-> On the TV screen, the bad guy flew about four yards backward, as though he'd been hit with an anti-tank rocket instead of a mere 9-mm pistol round. "I wonder where you buy those."//
"We can't afford them, O great accounting expert!"//