The Worst Thing About War Was The

So Many Bright Futures Consigned To The Ashes Of The Past.so Many Dreams Lost In The Madness That Had Engulfed Us.except For A Few Widely Scattered Shouts Of Joy,the Survivors Of The Abyss Sat Hollow-eyed And Silent, Trying To Comprehend A World Without War.

Chickenshit Refers To Behavior That Makes Military Life Worse Than It Need Be: Petty Harassment Of The Weak By The Strong; Open Scrimmage For Power And Authority And Prestige; Sadism Thinly Disguised As Necessary Discipline; A Constant 'paying Off Of Old Scores'; And Insistence On The Letter Rather Than The Spirit Of Ordinances.

"those Who Fought Know A Secret About Themselves, And It Is Not Very Nice." ... They Have Experienced Secretly And Privately Their Natural Human Impulse Toward Sadism And Brutality... Not Merely Did I Learn To Kill With A Noose Of Piano Wire Put Around Somebody's Neck From Behind, But I Learned To Enjoy The Prospect Of Killing That Way.

Every War Is Ironic Because Every War Is Worse Than Expected. Every War Constitutes An Irony Of Situation Because Its Means Are So Melodramatically Disproportionate To Its Presumed Ends.

Things Without Defense: Insects, Kittens, Small Boys.