Where was Michael Collins during the Great War? He would have been worth a dozen brass hats.
Memorial Day Quotes
This page is assembled from three others: War, Death and Gratitude. There is no memorial collection underneath it. One poem is filed against the day itself, Joyce Kilmer’s, in Trees and Other Poems (1914), and it opens with a bugle that, he says, is not singing of war today.
The rest is whatever the three source pages rate highest, so it leans toward poetry and toward writers who saw war up close. Several famous lines about death and sacrifice carry flags here, so read the note on a quote’s own page before you attach a name to it.
What we are seeing is not the war in Iraq. What we're seeing is slices of the war in Iraq.
Listen, the weather is just like Hillary's explanation for her war vote: we just don't know, do we?
The popular anti-war slogan from the 1960’s says it best: “Make love, not war.”
De facto, Britain has entered the war. I consider Britain is now a legitimate target for us.
In the war on terror we did everything wrong that we could have done.