I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs.
Glen CookCricket’s voice broke through Thomas’s memory. He was reading a letter, most likely from his mother. He was trying hard to hide it, but he was tearing up.
“Captain I don’t want to be here,” was all he could choke out. Thomas reached over and gave Cricket’s shoulder a tight squeeze.
Tag: war crying soldier homesick
Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind. He had chosen this, an unselfish life.
Jessica FortunatoEn batallas tales
los que vencen son leales,
los vencidos los traidores.
Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.
Rasheed OgunlaruTag: wisdom education learning peace war studying peacemaking rasheed-ogunlaru-quote
War is just a damn nuisance.
Mark HannaLovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTag: love war romance warfare rules lovers fair-play warriors chivalry restrictions
And so, pointing fingers become pointing guns, because nobody listens to fingers.
Jeff ShaaraTag: war
It is time we accept there’s no Cronkite moment for Afghanistan. Perhaps it's time we value the hearts and minds of our own over distant Afghan tribes.
Tiffany MadisonTag: war soldiers osama-bin-laden nation-building war-in-afghanistan-2001 tribalism walter-cronkite war-in-afghanistan
They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.
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