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"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."

"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war."

"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."

"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."
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"I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do."

"The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy."
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