"It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way."

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Source : "Kevin Powers on The Yellow Birds: 'I felt those things, and asked the same questions'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

Kevin Powers

#Home Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Risk Quotes

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
“Enough of talking. It is time now to do.”
“I always wanted to do a Disney movie.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My work is one long triumph over my limitations.”
“There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.”
“I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.”
“I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.”
“A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.”

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