The Los Angeles parade would begin in Griffith Park, where a large crowd would assemble and the speeches would be given. Every politician of consequence would be there. There was no way they would miss a chance to publicly praise the troops and honor those who had lost their lives in service.
Some of the tributes would be sincere and heartfelt, and some less so. But participating in the event, vowing undying support for the U.S. military, was an absolute must to maintain political viability. It was okay to vote to cut funds for veterans' healthcare, but don't dare miss a chance to jump on the Memorial Day bandwagon.
It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as it was rightly and properly supposed to, an awful beauty in both the weaponry of war and the violence and devastation which that weaponry was capable of inflicting, and yet it knew that attractiveness stemmed from a kind of insecurity, a sort of childishness. It could see that—by some criteria—a warship, just by the perfectly articulated purity of its purpose, was the most beautiful single artifact the Culture was capable of producing, and at the same time understand the paucity of moral vision such a judgment implied. To fully appreciate the beauty of the weapon was to admit to a kind of shortsightedness close to blindness, to confess to a sort of stupidity. The weapon was not itself; nothing was solely itself. The weapon, like anything else, could only finally be judged by the effect it had on others, by the consequences it produced in some outside context, by its place in the rest of the universe. By this measure the love, or just the appreciation, of weapons was a kind of tragedy.
Iain M. BanksTags: morality technology weapons guns military
It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart in every other way.
Jennifer FayeTags: romance fiction christmas winter military snow cabin contemporary-romance soldier holiday reunion love-story harlequin ski-resort giveaway pennsylvania
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
Alexander the GreatTags: wisdom army military leadership
There are no more worlds to conquer!
Alexander the GreatTags: military leader warrior general worlds conquerer
She oozes the kind of over-confidence that only comes to people who wear deep red lipstick and sparkly tissue sarees in bright daylight.
Aditi Mathur KumarTags: romance funny army military armywife military-spouce
What a slacker. Just because daddy paid for his college education, he thinks he can avoid dying for his country."
-- Willie "Drafted
Tags: humor adventure military
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships—a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
Abraham FlexnerTags: education learning war priorities military teaching great-britain unintelligence military-funding naval-treaty warships
...the weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water...To cap our woe, there was no means to light a single fire. We had to imagine dinner.
Leonce PatryTags: war military france prussia campaign franco-prussian
Differences disappear when faced with death.
Shannon A. ThompsonTags: war death death-and-dying military differences facing-death different-perspective war-story
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