"He told me that once, in the war, heâ€™d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didnâ€™t speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldierâ€™s head. He didnâ€™t do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another."

-- Libba Bray

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