Angels Quote by Walter Dean Myers

We had set out in a rain of flowers to seek the death of heroes. The war was our dream of greatness, power and…

— Ernst Junger

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

— Jon Krakauer

War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.

— Orson Bean

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

“In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me, not then.…

— Tom Bissell

“It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognition. War reminded me of the sharp and…

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

There's this romantic idea that's built up around war. But the pragmatic view is there are tons of people of my generation who have…

— Pete Buttigieg

“The Vietnam War was the boiling point of our generation. Young people of courage and commitment often chose opposite courses of action. So did…

— Mark Anthony Sullivan

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British…

— Walter Dean Myers

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

“Those who romanticize war often like to think of it, at least in areas of mortal peril, as nothing but “guts and glory.” Those…

— Boria Sax

My fascination with war is because my dad was in World War II, and my brother was in Vietnam.

— Jeff Hanneman