War
“It’s not a fight if somebody doesn’t fight back, is it?
“What we see and do in war - the cruelty, is unbelievable. But somehow we gotta make some sense out of it. To do that, we need an easy-to-understand truth and damn few words.”
“Every jackass thinks he knows what war is, especially those that have never been in one.”
“War is young men dying and old men talking.”
“Men need war like the soil needs turning.”
“We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams.”
“Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.”
“The ultimate ideal for a warrior is to lay down his sword.”
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
“When I get home people will ask me, "Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? Why? You some war junkie?" You know what I'll say? I won't say a god damn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you, and that's it. That's all it is.”