To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

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.

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.