If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

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.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.