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When you’re in the midst, it feels like it will never end. But you keep going and moving forward—and suddenly you’re looking back on the pain rather than living it.

— John McCain

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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

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I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

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