"It comes down to this: we're pieces of equipmentTo be counted and signed for. On occasion some of us break down,And those parts which can't be salvagedAre replaced with other GI parts, that's all."
- Rolando Hinojosa
"Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, command..."
- David Halberstam
"Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam."
- Don DeLillo
"People hated and killed each other back then. Now even those who survived are dying, leaving this world one by one. Unless we find a way to forgive one another, none of us will ever be able to see eac..."
- Hwang Sok-yong
"There is an old saying that goes 'Start by plucking a hair, end by killing a man'. It is also said, 'Two hands must meet to make a sound'. The atrocities that happened here weren't carried out by stra..."
"The blazing sun beat down on the concrete of the museum's front yard- Reverend Ryu Yosop felt as if the heat were sucking up all the moisture in his brain and heart. What different colors he and his b..."
"It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid."
- Pat Frank
"We had it drilled into us time and time again: 'If someone above you falls, grip tightly to the vertical rope and cradle that person in your arms until help can get to you.'...If someone fell down on ..."
- C.S. Crawford
"All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time’."
- Jeff Shaara quoting Colonel "Chesty" Puller
"Back then, I think, both sides were just very young. They needed to grow up enough to realize that thing get quite complicated in the business of living, that a lot of things require mutual understand..."