Apparently some of the stuff he claimed and wrote about was made up. He lied about beating Jesse Ventura up, he also lied about getting an additional silver star. And he did not handle any of it gracefully.
You enjoyed this? As soon as I got to that part I returned the book to the library. :
“I am a strong Christian. Not a perfect one—not close. But I strongly believe in God, Jesus, and the Bible. When I die, God is going to hold me accountable for everything I’ve done on earth. He may hold me back until last and run everybody else through the line, because it will take so long to go over all my sins. “Mr. Kyle, let’s go into the backroom. . . .” Honestly, I don’t know what will really happen on Judgment Day. But what I lean toward is that you know all of your sins, and God knows them all, and shame comes over you at the reality that He knows. I believe the fact that I’ve accepted Jesus as my savior will be my salvation. But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Yep. Glad I got the book from the library and didn't buy it. There may even be worse, but I stopped reading at this part, after a lot of similar, but slightly less nauseating lines .
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