We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.
Tucker ElliotTags: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea dodds tucker-elliot
I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s not so easy, moving forward.
Tucker ElliotTags: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea dodds tucker-elliot
In Korea I’d been so afraid that Sami would lose her dad. She did, but she didn’t get a flag. He went to Doha, then to Baghdad, then to Kabul, then to someplace else, and then to a different someplace else, on and on. He’d come home, leave again, come home, leave again, until one day he came home a different person altogether. Sami lost Angel, lost her family, and then she lost herself.
Tucker ElliotTags: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea dodds tucker-elliot
It’d be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It’s really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but if we forget that how we live shapes and influences the world around us, then we’ve already lost.
Tucker ElliotTags: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea 9-11-10th-anniversary dodds tucker-elliot
Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but Germany, my friend, is playing a very different tune. Germany has many more birds in her sights than just France...
Shabelsky: Nonsense! ...In my view the German are cowards and the French are cowards... They're just thumbing their noses at each other. Believe me, things will stop there. They won't fight.
Borkin: And as I see it, why fight? What's the point of these
armaments, congresses, expenditures? You know what I'd do? I'd gather together dogs from all over the country, give them a good dose of rabies and let them loose in enemy country. In a month all my enemies would be running rabid.
Tags: dogs war humour france germany
Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting
Erich Maria RemarqueTags: inspirational truth reality war literature germany soldiers west world-war-2 world-war indignation all-quiet-on-the-western-front
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.
W.G. SebaldTags: world-war-ii germany atrocities bombing devastation on-behalf-of-german-civilians
In Berlin, I worked from home, were the only other women sat sedately on my bookshelves. They were good company, it has to be said, but a little quiet.
Luisa WeissTags: women cooking germany berlin working-from-home
You wouldn't hurt a virgin, would you? Where do you think they get virgin olive oil, huh? Don't you think we're pathetic enough as it is?
ItalyTags: italy germany aph hetalia what-zhe-heck i-don-t-want-to-die-speech tomato-crate-fairy
May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.
Christine GranvilleTags: inspirational germany biography spy world-war-2 rescue military-history second-world-war soe parachute christine-granville clare-mulley krystyna-skarbek special-agent
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