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“We make war that we may live in peace.”

“For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not; The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd, And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.”

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Book:Passage to India

Source: Passage to India

“As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.”

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Book:Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four

Source: Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four

“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.”

Source: Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time

“Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only 48 American battle casualties. What it has concealed from the public is that 206,000 veterans of that war filed claims with the VA for injuries and illnesses. In the years since that war, 8,300 veterans have died, and 160,000 claims for disability have been recognized by the VA.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”

“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”

“. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.”

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Author:Richard Paul Evans

“As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what it means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes are glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator.”

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Author:Kevin Hearne