2 Quotes by Christopher P Collins

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.

From this war, I am but a shelllodged in a desert's flesh--bone on bone on bone.