“never in the course of human events have so many owed so much to so few”
“the world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. we know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. - gen. omar bradley
there are 8,000 american servicemen interred/remembered in these gardens and along these walls: the – wwII – american military cemetery, outside, cambridge england
“anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war” - Otto Von Bismark
“war is hell, but that’s not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. war is nasty; war is fun. war is thrilling; war is drudgery. war makes you a man; war makes you dead” - Tim O’Brien
Mike Green, there if you need him, unseen if you don’t
“if it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, i would still say “no” to war. for one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses” - louis lecoin
“only the dead have seen the end of war” - Plato
peace
Very powerful series of photos and quotes. Thanks for sharing!
You are very welcome!
Really good. Certainly.
General Bradley’s saying is the truth itself.Inspiring post .The pictures telling the bravery and sacrifices of our serves men and women so the present generation and the future generation live free in this great country.Thank you for liking my post (Religious freedom.) God bless you ,God bless America.
i could not state more eloquently myself michael, thank you