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Getting men to give officers the respect their rank deserved was a battle the army hadn’t won yet and wouldn’t anytime soon.
Southern Victory (1997)
If you started thinking the whole world was like the part of it where you lived, you were going to be wrong a lot of the time.
Southern Victory (1997)
A man of strong opinions but limited vocabulary, O’Doull thought.
Southern Victory (1997)
Early summer in Nashville made a good practice ground for hell.
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Nobody was supposed to shoot at people wearing Red Cross armbands, but bullets, as he’d learned too well, weren’t fussy about whom they hit.
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Salt Lake City wasn’t hell, but you could see it from there.
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They wouldn’t understand no matter what, any more than they would understand what life in the trenches was like. Experience brought understanding. Nothing else came close.
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There’s no such thing as glory, near as I can tell. If the machine guns didn’t kill it, the artillery did.
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Then he laughed at himself. If Fort Benton counted for civilization, he’d been out in the wilderness too long.
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Cincinnatus Driver hadn’t been under fire for more than twenty-five years. He’d forgotten how much fun it wasn’t.
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He sees the country going forward. He doesn’t see the suffering he’s creating to make it go in the direction he wants.
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He could speak clear English when he wanted to. Why didn’t he want to more often?
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it. Its glory is all moonshine.
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If you call a thing by a name that doesn't seem so repellent, then the thing itself also becomes less repellent. Sympathetic magic—except it wasn't sympathetic to those who fell victim to it.
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But, as often happened, the official and the real had only a nodding acquaintance with each other.
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Anyone who used a word like obstructions in a sentence was bound to have other things wrong with him, too.
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In war, proving the other guy was wrong often meant proving he had no business breathing.
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Well, what was life but the difference between what you planned and what you got?
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The countryside looked as if hell had been there, but had gone away on vacation.
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The only way you could keep from getting old was by dying before you made it.
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