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I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear.
One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on.

— Christopher Vokes Vokes - My Story (1985)

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Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

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No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

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My recollection is that most of the crap coming out of the trial via the media had Meyer condemned even before the trial was over.

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I was not going to go to bed forever with his unwarranted death on my conscience.

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