For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
Karl MarlantesWar is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
Karl MarlantesIt was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about
Karl Marlantes