The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse towards sadism and brutality ... Not only did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around someone's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.