Then, together, they passed through the camp gate and marched up the road, toward wives and sweethearts and children and Mom and Dad and home.
Laura HillenbrandThat night, before he tried to sleep, Louie prayed. He had prayed only once before in his life, in childhood, when his mother was sick and he had been filled with a rushing fear that he would lose her. That night on the raft, in words composed in his head, never passing his lips, he pleaded for help.
Laura HillenbrandA lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.
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The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.
Laura HillenbrandTags: freedom hate revenge hatred forgiveness survivors abuse-survivors
His features, which would later settle into pleasant collaboration, was growing at different rates, giving him a curious face that seemed designed by committee.
Laura HillenbrandAll he had left was his alcohol and his resentment, the emotion that, Jean Améry would write, “nails every one of us onto the cross of his ruined past.
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...resentment, the emotion that, Jane Amery would write, 'nails every one of us onto the cross of his ruined past.'
Laura HillenbrandWithout dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.
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Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.
Laura HillenbrandTags: dignity
Wonderful?" wrote J.O. Young in his diary. "To stand cheering, crying, waving your hat and acting like a damn fool in general. No one who has spent all but 16 days of the this war as a Nip prisoner can really know what it means to see 'Old Sammy' buzzing around over camp.
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