In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.
Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.