Quotes February 25, 2022

“’Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly,’” he said, reciting the verse. “That’s Micah 6:8, and that’s my command philosophy.”
Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson, commanding general of I Corps at Joint Base Lewis-McChord
 
 
 
 
“There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell.”
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations, on February 23, 2022.
 
 
 
 
​A good law is clear, concise and enforceable​.
Dan Holloway, 82nd Airborne, Retired
 
 
 
 
Its Only a Bad Neighborhood If Your Not Bad Enough To Be There
Marcus Luttrell
 
 
 
 
“Figure it out or die.”
Eugene Goodman’s Army platoon sergean
 
 
 
 
“A soldier (just returned from the Western Front) was so disordered while he was going down the stairs into the London tube station, he became suddenly aware of the crowds of people coming up; he looked haggardly about, and evidently mistaking the hollow space below for the trenches and the ascending crowd for Germans, fixed his bayonet and charged. But for the women constable on duty at the turn of the staircase, who was quick enough to divine his trouble and hang on to him with all her strength to prevent his forward advance, he would have wounded many and caused danger and panic.”
Mary Allen, British policewoman
 
 
 
 
“All the horrors of all the ages were brought together; not only armies but whole populations were thrust into the midst of them… Merchant ships and neutral ships and hospital ships were sunk on the seas and all on board left to their fate… Every effort was made to starve entire nations into submission, without regard to age or sex. Monuments and cities were smashed by artillery. Bombs were cast down from the air indiscriminately. Poison gas stifled or seared the soldiers. Liquid fire was projected upon their bodies. Men fell from the air in flames, or were smothered in the dark recesses of the sea.”
Winston Churchill, British prime minister
 
 
 
 
“Rats came up from the canal, fed on the plentiful corpses, and multiplied exceedingly. While I stayed here with the Welch, a new officer joined the company and, in token of welcome, was given a dug-out containing a spring-bed. When he turned in that night he heard a scuffling, shone his torch on the bed, and found two rats on his blanket tussling for the possession of a severed hand.”
Capt. Robert Graves’ Autobiography, Goodbye To All That
 
 
 
 
“For God’s sake, don’t enlist and come to this war in Europe. Cannons, machine guns, rifles and bombs are going day and night. In my company there are only 10 men left.”
Havildar Abdul Rahman, an Indian soldier serving with the British forces in the trenches of World War I