Quotes from John J. Gobbell

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli PROLOGUE 16 June 1941 Union Station El Paso, Texas The killer's code name was HECKLE.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as his friends. Lord Jim Joseph Conrad

bean raised in Kona nearby on the big Island of Hawaii.

return to the grim business of living.

God and the soldier We like adore In times of danger Not before

TO THE FALLEN Sleep my sons, your duty done For Freedom's light has come. Sleep in the silent depths of the sea Or in your bed of hallowed sod Until you hear at dawn the low, Clear reveille of God.

For company he had a grease-stained paperback copy of Ian Fleming's Thunderball. Jerry yawned as he flipped pages, envying James Bond as he thwarted assassins and terrorists, darting from close call to close call and from bed to bed, barely lingering to enjoy the scent of the gorgeous women who found him irresistible.

You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.

The sadness of evil men is that they believe no truth that does not paint the world in their colours. Eric Ambler The Schirmer Inheritance

Forgive your neighbor's injustice. Then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. —Ecclesiasticus 28:2

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernhard Shaw

AMERICANS - U. S. NAVY, HAWAII Chester W. Nimitz,

And while on cold, concrete walls, stark shadows of medical teams silently danced their bizarre renditions of mercy, Ingram tread further, dodging heaps that moaned and writhed.

the destroyers that formed the outer picket line.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli