"When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting."

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Source : "A war hero returns home, 40 years later" By John Blake, www.cnn.com. April 9, 2012.

Karl Marlantes

#Veterans Day Quotes #War Quotes #Starting Quotes

“For a while she considered being ill, but she changed her mind...”
“I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.”
“I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2010). “The Nobodies Album”, p.52, Anchor
“My father was a very difficult man.”
“The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.”
“We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.”
“I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.”
“Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.”

Source : Nigel Forbes Dennis (1949). “A Sea Change”

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