“The Crazy feeling builds and builds. It never stops, it never ends, there is no relief.”
Source: The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
“Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.”
Source: Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
“No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact that people stopped existing because of me.”
Source: Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
“Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don’t do it to win anymore; we do it because it’s what we know how to do. Get ready to go. Get ready to come back. And the moments in between we mark on the calendar. It’s our battle rhythm.”
Source: No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife
“So when I arrived in Saudi Arabia in August of 2001, as there was no chemical, biological, or nuclear war going on, all I prepared for was to be bored until it was time to go home. Obviously, that plan failed.”
Source: The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
“I feel like so much has been left undone. There are friends I won't see before I leave, there are bills I still need to pay. I haven't written as much as I've wanted, and there are countless things I've said that I wish I could correct, but this is a process that will never end. When my grandmother died she left a library full of books she never finished reading. This is how I feel now.”
Source: Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
[Meditations Divine and Moral]”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
“Endure to the very end.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I'm obsessed with trying to recount events as accurately and honestly as possible, but in practice the only thing I'm really any good at is telling you how I feel.”
Source: Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq
“Sure as hell doesn’t seem that Williams’ study and findings were general. This man talked from fact. I bet this is the scientist and study they want.”
Source: Fatal Identity