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“Why did people like us have to fight on the opposite side of the planet while the President got to sit stateside in the safety of his white mansion?”

Book:Alive Day: A Memoir

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“They lived in rural Michigan in the pre-automobile age, and for the most part they had never been fifty miles away from the farm or the dusty village streets; yet once, ages ago, they had been everywhere and had seen everything, and nothing that happened to them thereafter meant anything much. All that was real had taken place when they were young; everything after that had simply been a process of waiting for death, which did not frighten them much -- they had seen it inflicted in the worst possible way on boys who had not bargained for it, and they had enough of the old-fashioned religion to believe without any question that when they passed over they would simply be rejoining men and ways of living which they had known long ago.”

War Youth Civil War Death And Dying Afterlife Farm Rural Army Of The Potomac

Book:Mr. Lincoln's Army

Source: Mr. Lincoln's Army

“In the midst of the looming threat that covered and shook our being, Safiya’s plea continued with a wrath pulled at my shoulders, her eyes brimming with tears. But I, unmoved, recognized this choice before me. It could have been bullets that awaited me, and yes, it could mean the end of my story. Yet, to trade my life for the silence and give up this music? It was a trade I refused to make.”

War Symphony Whorehouse Miramoon

Author:Miramoon

“In the face of war, I stood resolute, for I knew that within the chaos, a symphony awaited my very being, in whichever form it may come now, I will accept it with open arms.”

War Poetry Whorehouse Miramoon

Author:Miramoon

“The swarm was designed as a tool of war. It was built to slip behind the defenses of the Carryx and expose the great enemy's weaknesses. It is still that, It is also becoming something stranger”

War Strange

Book:The Mercy of Gods

Source: The Mercy of Gods

“Dafyd on the Carryx: "I'm going to learn everything about them. I'm going to figure out how to get in their heads. And I'm going to kill them all and burn their fucking towers to the ground. It's my war now.”

War Carryx

Book:The Mercy of Gods

Source: The Mercy of Gods

“If I Must Go If I must go to heaven's end Climbing the ages like a stair, Be near me and forever bend With the same eyes above me there; Time will fly past us like leaves flying, We shall not heed, for we shall be Beyond living, beyond dying, Knowing and known unchangeably.”

Death Poetry Time

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“We typically see ourselves as more benign than we are, and are quicker to attribute malign motives to potential adversaries”

War Reflection

Book:Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

Source: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

“There is no such thing as "collateral damage" in war—only damage.”

War Collateral Damage

Book:Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir

Source: Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir

“War can set us back centuries, but sometimes it is necessary to correct the course of mankind.”

War Conflict

Book:The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse

Source: The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse

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