Four generations Quote by Paul Beatty

“Why in the world did the most Pentagon-wanted girl out of all of us,” he looked pointedly at me, “go to the place where…

— Maya Bode

“And you were captured at pretty much every angle possible-it's impressive that the statue of George Washington didn't whip out an iPhone and email…

— Rachel Cohn

“He began to wonder with genuine concern just what sort of shithead the Pentagon had foisted on him.”

— Joseph Heller

I served at the Pentagon and at Fort Leavenworth - my job was video cameraman, and that allowed me to travel to places like…

— Chad Coleman

“All my life, I have binge-watched crime dramas and love movies with cops being the heroes, but this wasn’t a movie. This was real…

— Donna Brazile

“way.  If you’re just a civilian, why did you”

— Diane Henders

“By 1967 McNamara was pacing about his expansive Pentagon office, staring at the large framed photograph of Defense Secretary Forrestal (who had committed suicide),…

— James T. Patterson

The thing that really struck me was how many firms that we think of as strictly civilian had ties to the Pentagon. Companies like…

— Nick Turse

“Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn’t analyze…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Sergeant Skirata said that civvies didn't have a clue, and that it was alright for them to have lofty ideas about peace and freedom…

— Karen Traviss

“Building a life on solid accomplishment is more difficult than being an antiwar veteran and confessing one's guilt in public.”

— J. Glenn Gray

“At times I was aware, while they were happening, that I was a witness to extraordinary events, and I tried to remember them as…

— Henry Orenstein