I cruised into this war thinking my buddy's going to take a bullet, and I'm going to be the fucking hero pulling him out of harm's way. Instead, I end up pulling out this little girl we shot, hiding in the backseat of her dad's car.

Evan Wright
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This quote illustrates how most people do not consider the consequences of their actions before taking them. In this case, the person is a group of soldiers who go on a mission together. They expect to be the hero of the story. However, when they arrive on the scene, they find a little girl hiding in the backseat of a car.

This little girl is so terrified that she had been running from her father's car and hiding in it for some time. The soldiers do what they are trained to do and take her out of harm's way. However, they have no idea that by doing so they have just caused her death as she was hit by a stray bullet as one of them fired at a target behind her vehicle.

Source: Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, And The New Face Of American War

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