If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

Bad news is dramatic. It makes good TV. If there's a firefight on the same day that a school opens up, the media will show the firefight even though the school is way more important and will affect the community for much longer.

There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

I hope I get married one day.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.