In war, soldiers sometimes die in the fever pitch of a fire fight, or by artillery when they’re huddled in a foxhole. Bill Kiehn, a Toccoa man, was killed because he was carrying a sack of potatoes from one building into another.
I find war preferable to politics. At least in war, you know your enemies.
How is the war going? Do you have the half-time score?[to von Strohm]
Half the art of war is knowing when to switch sides.
Cold war is a bloodless war. Mutual distrust and complete co-dependence.
Any time a man dies in war, he dies too soon.
After WWII, we went six years without a murder here. Six years. And these days, well… Sometimes wonder if you boys didn’t bring that war home with ya.
“I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day, when he said: ‘Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?’ Grandpa said, “No. But I served in a company of heroes.”[quoting from a letter Mike Ranney wrote to him]
