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Quotes by Soldier
"The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail."
Fire,
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"For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties."
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"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."
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"I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year."
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"Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty."
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"As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views."
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"Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war."
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"In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out."
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"The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious."
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"All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media."
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"Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship."
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"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."
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"A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself."
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"You want to keep intelligence separate from policy."
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"But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility."
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"If you don't put anything in place, do not expect miraculous results to appear."
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"There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear."
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"As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example."
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"Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out."
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"I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected."
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"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
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"Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful, Unhelpful, Unruly, Unkindly, Unloving, Unambitious, Unmotivated or make you feel...Uncomfortable."
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"More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor."
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"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first."
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"Instead of hating someone, pray for that person. Don't forget to pray for yourself as well, that you may learn how to let go and forgive."
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"Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, and remind you what's important in life."
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"Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost."
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"All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated."
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