Notable Quotes
"Bureaucracies attempt to be efficient; professions attempt to be effective."
~Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker
Chief of Staff, Army."
"People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
~George Orwell";
"A veteran is a person of peace, soft spoken, slow to anger, quick to realize that those who talk most about the glory of war are those who know little about its horror. A veteran never jokes about war, he's been there and still sees on memory's vivid screen the wounded and dying, the widows and orphans. He knows first hand that no war is good and the only thing worse than war is slavery."
Well, we do joke about it, amongst ourselves. But ya have to be a part of the Brotherhood of War to make the jokes. You should hear how First Responders talk amongst themselves!" ;
"It's not difficult to understand why somebody might pick up an AK-47 against us. Maybe we killed his father in the first Gulf War, maybe in this Gulf War, maybe he's just a dick.
~Sgt. Reginald Abram
Third Armored Cavalry Regiment
in western Iraq,
quoted in the Asia Times, Oct. 24" ;
© Pamela Bobik
