“ I’m clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope. Tucker Elliot
“ Foreshadowing: Was my challenging Allah to unleash the full weight of his fury upon us, with dark clouds looming in the distance. Adam Fenner
“ I’ll give you one chance to run,but may your shoulder always whisper in your ear…“It’s best to watch out for men, like me. Ryan Goodrich
“ An infantryman’s job is to deliver his enemies into the waiting hands of Death. It is Doc’s job to protect his brothers from Death, to knock him aside and say, “Not today. Adam Fenner
“ When you’re as small as I am, people don’t expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them. Daniel Rodriguez
“ Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what’s inside someone until he’s tested. Daniel Rodriguez
“ It feels like last week, but in fact we’re now closing in on five thousand days at war. I always picture Sami as a nine-year-old soccer stud ... and yet there are soldiers in Afghanistan today who wer… Tucker Elliot
“ Sami and I had exactly one day together in the old world. On Tuesday the jihadists came to our front door and knocked down our buildings. Our new world was hijacked planes, anthrax, and Afghanistan. T… Tucker Elliot
“ The one ring road around the airfield is paved, but heavily rutted and potholed. Every few days a street-sweeper makes its way around, polishing the rutted surface with brushes and water. Glenn Dean
“ Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience. Zia Haider Rahman
“ It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emo… David Finkel
“ I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’, walking the same dusty tracks and fields as the ordinary soldiers. I did eve… John Cantwell
“ The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence. Chris Hedges
“ Brutality and injustice made us raise our hands towards the sky for years; God didn’t respond us, but drones came to our rescue. M.F. Moonzajer
“ How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they’ve seen on the American movie screen? Zia Haider Rahman
“ On August 10, 1984, my plane landed in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. There were no skyscrapers here. The blue domes of the mosques and the faded mountains were the only things rising above the ad… Vladislav Tamarov
“ Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run. Dianne Harman
“ The chowdry, or burqa -- the Saudi, North African, and Central Asian version of the head, face, and body shroud -- is a sensory deprivation isolation chamber. It is claustrophobic, may lead to anxiety… Phyllis Chesler
“ Dancing falls into the same category as poetry for a woman – it equals dreaming, which may inspire thoughts about such banned topics as love and desire. Jenny Nordberg
