The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.
Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.