There are houses in Gloucester where grooves have been worn into the floorboards by women pacing past an upstairs window, looking out to sea.
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. – Winston Churchill.
War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it’s fired by a guy who doesn’t make that in a year at a guy who doesn’t make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.