"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
-Plato,

"I died in hell - They called it Passchendaele"
"...Mud hides the stripes of rank. There are only poor suffering beasts. Hell is not fire...hell is mud."

" I remember the Argonne, 1918. The sounds of that battle still haunt me to this day. Machinegun fire from enemy lines. The sickening sound of a bayonet tearing through human flesh. The soldier next to me firing his sidearm in desperation. All these sounds still echo in my mind, and as conducted by Death himself it all comes together as music. A rythm of death. A symphony of war"

"A man is never more himself than when he has nothing to lose"

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill