Charlotte was used to all the marks of war: the shabbiness of things, bad food, shop queues, posters about the war effort, people with worried faces, people dressed in black. She was used to seeing...

During the few months Troy had been back home, he’d told his friends about us, and so we quickly eased into the conversation as though we’d all known each other for many years. They embarrassed...

Just like all people – just want to get on with their lives, and have families, and have a bit of fun and have a decent life. They are not interested in war – no...

Think of the prince, protector of the palace. Right now he prays for you to live.

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don’t respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.

There has been no confrontation so far between our units and Nigerian soldiers.

In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to...

Forget bringing the troops home from Iraq. We need to get the troops home from World War II. Can anybody tell me why, in 2009, we still have more than sixty thousand troops in Germany...

When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, of a family line, connection. All around him, men were walking silently with their thoughts, reforming their lives,...

I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

But, new soldier that I was, I understood at last what Cadus had been trying to tell me all along: that life and love and rank were not enough. To be whole in myself, I...

My mother used to say that rain here pours like a blessing, like a thick veil that parts to reveal the bride’s face. But nearly every day, when this rain parted, it revealed a long...

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.

It is not the dead rather the ones who lives through war have seen the dreadful end of the war, you might have been victorious, unwounded but deep within you, you carry the mark of...

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you’ve destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you’ve done your job, then there aren’t any...

As long as there are soldiers that need it, we plan to continue.

Are you okay, man?””Yeah, I’m good.”It’s a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.

There are two types of memory frequently experienced by individuals who have had overwhelming trauma that has been suppressed psychologically or chemically. The first is general memory, experienced as an adult, in which there is...

All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They call them “pin-up girls” and think its cute how “our boys,” now that...

Unfortunately for Mr. McClellan, the evidence that Mr. Bush’s chat with the soldiers was rehearsed and rehearsed within an inch of its life was all on tape.

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that’s just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It’s just crazy.

We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.

For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.

Soldiers die not in hatred but in love.

We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

Casey’s flesh and blood sends the war machine’s children to exclusive private schools.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

You must be a light unto yourself.

I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.

There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.

Firing on Israeli soldiers continues,

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.