Side by side Quote by Banana Yoshimoto

“I sent out words like soldiers to battle and they never returned.”

— John Mortimer

“Their true characters were shown not in the war they fought, but in the peace they made.”

— Salman Rushdie

“They stood frozen in place, a breath away from each other and afraid to move in either direction. A war waged within.”

— Heather Huffman

“You couldn’t see the soldiers as people. They were icons.”

— Sara Sheridan

“For this one night, I saw with my own eyes the balance, the madness, the respect, the damage, the love, the intensity, and the…

— Rachel Stephens Showman, Those Ducks Look Aggressive

“The most precious moments of war are the moments where the soldiers remember their ordinary calm lives before the war!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Warriors are never appreciated in peacetime except by those they saved during the war.”

— Evan C. Currie

“They are soldiers. They depend upon routine, and anything out of the ordinary will give them pause. And they are men. They hate to…

— Kiersten White

“War is sweet to those who have never fought.”

— Jess Rothenberg

“As far as he was concerned, there were only two kinds of soldiers. There were those who lost their heads at the sound of…

— W.E.B. Griffin

“It was, I think in retrospect, the most dramatic individual personal act I have ever seen a soldier take. The mighty powers may try…

— Robert Fisk

“We fall. All casualties of the war, Because we cannot hear each other speak, Because eyes have ceased to see the face from the…

— John Pepper Clark