“It has been said that large staffs are the invariable sign of bad armies.”
Source: Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
“I am keenly aware that the security we enjoy is frail, and could easily be disrupted. Secretly, a nagging fear gnaws at me: what has really been learned from the lessons of Auschwitz and the Third Reich? Do we really understand what happened there and how we might prevent such events in future?”
Source: Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility
“Simply raising the theme of animals in the Third Reich means that our narrative is no longer only an account of what human beings have done to one another, but also about our relations with the natural world. If,viewed against the magnitude and terror of historical events, our personal lives appear almost trivial, the lives of animals may seem more so, and even
to raise the subject can at first seem either insensitive or pedantic. At the
same time, this new dimension places the events in an even vaster perspective still, one in which even the greatest battles and horrendous
crimes can begin to fade into insignificance. This is the standpoint of evolutionary time, in which humankind itself may be no more than a
relatively brief episode. Perhaps the focus on animals may help us to find
a more harmonious balance between the personal, historic, and cosmic
levels, on which, simultaneously we conduct our lives.”
“When we are covering our service member by the shield of prayer, we are engaging God's defense system of protection.”
Source: Faith Steps for Military Families: Spiritual Readiness Through the Psalms of Ascent
“While I may be left-handed, I've yet to figure out that my spouse is always right!”
Source: Soldier & Spouse and Their Traveling House
“He asks me if I'd ever killed someone and rushes from the kitchen table, but I ask him to stay, to listen.
"Collateral Damage," I say, "is the polite way of expressing the death of civilians who unknowingly mingle with the enemy."
He's thirteen now, fascinated with video games glamorizing real wars. I rise to leave, and he says, "But Dad, you didn't answer my question."
I did.”
Source: My American Night
“To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their most exuberant companion. He never fired their imaginations or made them laugh as their mother could, but he was unfailingly interested in them, sympathetic, confiding, entering into their lives in ways few fathers ever do. It was a though he was in league with them.”
Source: Mornings on Horseback
“When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.”
Source: A Terrible Mercy: 11/17/2014
“Beware of anything to do with President Obama...I speak from experience.”
“Patterns don’t repeat because we’re weak. They repeat because they once felt familiar enough to feel like home.”
Source: Stop Dating the Wrong Letters: A Playful-but-True Guide to Finding Love That Fits (Alphabetically Speaking)