There were other opportunities, making a lot more money than I am now. Every time I have faced up to this choice, I just find the satisfaction of being a soldier and the love of my profession overwhelming and more important to me than making a great deal of money or doing something I may […]
Soldiers Quotes
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
An atheist could not be as great a military leader as one who is not an atheist.
Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem
Never saw it or heard about it until your letter came. It is no use: I can’t be sympathetic; these things simply make me furious. I want to swear. I do swear. Killed just because people are blasted fools… Oh, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, DAMN. And oh, dear, dear, dear, dear, […]
You know – we’ve had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. “My God, my God – ” I said to myself, “it’s […]
This was my first encounter with a ritual observed in some way, shape, or form by every warrior society in the world. It involves hardening the spirit through severe training or some extreme physical test. The ritual takes different forms in different cultures, but they all have a common element: the warrior drives himself, or […]
They looked like two little boys playing soldier. They seemed to be having a wonderful time, too wonderful in fact. It made me a little sad somehow. (On Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill whom she had observed in animated conversation about war in the White House’s map room during Churchill’s visit soon after the […]
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.
