You're just as dead if you buy the farm in an "incident" as if you buy it in a declared war.

Then tracers laced the sky in front of me. Forget the shooting! If I get distracted now, I'll buy the farm anyway!

BETTY. Shoot, if I knew you was gonna buy the farm I coulda asked for everything you got in the world... How were you gonna do it? ¶ROGER (takes revolver out of briefcase). With this.

They gambled with as much reckless abandon as they flew their airplanes. They knew they might buy the farm tomorrow.

Buy the farm

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