Soldiers quotations

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◆ That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.

- Jonathan Safran Foer99

◆ poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

- Walt Whitman99

◆ A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.

- Bill Mauldin99

◆ The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

- Heinrich Heine99

◆ You can't get the blood out.

- Steven Ramirez99

◆ The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

- Sebastian Junger99

◆ You can only die once, to make sure it's worth it.

- Vladimir Kamarisky99

◆ I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

- Ernest Hemingway99

◆ No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

- Louis de Bernières99

◆ My mother used to say that rain here pours like a blessing, like a thick veil that parts to reveal the bride's face. But nearly every day, when this rain parted, it revealed a long line of soldiers, like you, like death, marching toward us, and we would scatter with a practiced silence and hide.

- Mia Kirshner99

◆ They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

- Marianne Moore99

◆ For no matter how many battles had been won or lost, no matter how many friends and soldiers killed, every battle felt like the first. And I realized that it wasn't the training, nor the pain of seeing friends die, nor the will to win that made the men fight, but their will to survive that made them soldiers.

- Magus Guidan99

◆ During the few months Troy had been back home, he'd told his friends about us, and so we quickly eased into the conversation as though we'd all known each other for many years. They embarrassed us with great thanks for having served overseas. They recounted combat events Troy had told them, and we realized by the context of their stories that Troy had made us heroes for his friends because we'd been heroes to him. At this point I was the saddest I'd yet been over Troy's passing, because the true friend from war is the friend who obliterates his own story by telling the stories of others.

- Anthony Swofford99

◆ Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure.

- Sebastian Barry99

◆ He had long been indifferent to which side won; he wished only that one or the other would do so decisively while he was still alive.

- Elizabeth Speller99