If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow "overcome" the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it, but let them also wonder occasionally whether this is not an illusion due to security, too much money and a simple ignorance of the way in which things actually happen.

George Orwell

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There are some things you never say good-bye to

Elizabeth Berg

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Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

Elizabeth Berg

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I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace.

Elizabeth Berg

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For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.

Elizabeth Berg

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First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice.

Elizabeth Berg

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Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.

Elizabeth Berg

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There are guys bleeding to death who don't know it, they're smiling, they're talking, they don't feel pain because they're in shock, they ask you for some water and then they're dead. On D-day I ran past a guy lying on his spilled guts with his eyes closed and his thumb in his mouth. Eisenhower's speech had been read to us over the loudspeaker by our commander when we crossed the channel that morning. What valor and inspiration were in his words- all about how we were embarked on a great crusade, that the hopes and prayers of a liberty loving people were going with us....I got gooseflesh when he asked for the blessing of almighty god on this great and noble undertaking. But how to reconcile that with spilled guts on a beach and flies in the eyes of some dead nineteen year old kid who traded his life for some words on paper?

Elizabeth Berg

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A family is no place for privacy!

Elizabeth Berg

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Is war a sin?

Elizabeth Berg

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