...because here, Bullet,
here is where the world ends, every time.
That’s war. It won’t let anyone get away unscathed. I’m sorry about Grete.”
Verner aka ‘Jens’
in the novel 'the Informer' by Steen Langstrup
If ever there was a prime-time trigger for PTSD you couldn't do much better than this, but lucky for Norm, the crowd, America, the forty-million-plus TV viewing audience, Bravos can deal, oh yes! Pupils dilated, pulse and blood pressure through the roof, limbs trembling with stress-reflex cortisol rush, but it's cool, it's good, their shit's down tight, no Vietnam-vet crackups for Bravo squad! You can march these boys straight into sound-and-light show hell and Bravos can deal, but damn, isn't it rude to put them through it.
Ben FountainHas this year made me a better lover?
Will I understand something of hardship,
of loss, will a lover sense this
in my kiss or touch? What do I know
of redemption or sacrifice, what will I have
to say of the dead - that it was it worth it,
that any of it made sense?
I have no words to speak of war.
Mots clés war
General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down".
Joseph HellerThe war was about everything, it was everything, and the question of where it came from was meaningless. There was only the question of how to live through it.
Brian Francis SlatteryMots clés war
The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.
Brian Francis SlatteryHow vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
Albert EinsteinPeaceful Warrior
Hill HarperMots clés war
You know what, BB? We’ve got dark spots on our souls. We have to live with that. War is not about doing what’s right. War’s about surviving.”
Verner aka ‘Jens’
in the novel 'The Informer' by Steen Langstrup
Mots clés war right-and-wrong surviving ww2
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