As the months passed, even the strident voices from the newspapers had begun to moderate, and the passion to put Preston’s neck in a noose had become subdued. It was a relief to Adams that with the tr...
Dammit, you’ve got a job to do! He tried to pull energy—confidence—from the faces of the others, even from men who had never done this before.
As long as there are armies, there will be a war. I don’t care about symbols.
Every Marine was trained in handling a rifle, no matter what noncombat job he might assume down the road. Right now, at Hagaru-ri, every Marine was now a rifleman.
Giraud has changed his mind.
Go home, Sean. Go plant some flowers and mow your grass. And maybe hatch a couple more kids.You sound like Colleen. That's what she wants.It's what we all want. Some of us just don't know it yet.
Knows where he is now. Not here, that’s for sure. Hope the Krauts didn’t grab him. Buford…Dammit!
Instructions like he’s never been on a field of
See the strength of the blue lines in front of them. But it was
My God, John. The king has begun to shoot his subjects.
Throwing
Worn-out shoes. Few of the men had anything solid on their feet, and the curses toward the supply officers went mostly unheeded by the officers, who had worries of their own.
If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue. As long as it is just the soldiers,
In terms of the collective memory of the American people, the Korean War is not just forgotten. It was not remembered in the first place…. —HISTORIAN ALLAN MILLETT
Is that not what a commander must do, earn respect, give them discipline and . . . love them?
It’s so rarely about military genius, who the greater tactician might be, who sat higher in his class at West Point. It’s about mistakes, some of them unavoidable, some of them purely stupid. My job i...
Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.
Lee made small greetings to the others, saw the sour expression of Jubal Early, Ewell’s division commander,
Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.
Around him the chorus had begun, great swarms of creatures that he guessed to be insects, frogs maybe, everything else in this infernal country that had a voice. Why night? he thought. They don’t say...
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