I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

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

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.