Quotes About Casualties

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

A Union soldier recalled the Confederate dead along Cemetery Ridge: No words can depict the ghastly picture…the men lay in heaps, the wounded wriggling and groaning under the weight of the dead among whom they were entangled….I could not long endure the gory, ghastly spectacle. I found my head reeling, the tears flowing and my stomach sick at the sight. For months the specter haunted my dreams…

Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life.

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.

I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.

I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

The first to fall in any war are forgotten.

President Johnson soon Americanized the war that resulted in the death of a generation.

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

Thus the total Armistice Day casualties were nearly 10 percent higher than those on D-Day.

Passchendaele ended in breathtaking losses. More than 310,000 British, 85,000 Frenchmen, and 260,000 Germans, a total of 655,000, had fallen in a battle fought over a field five miles wide.

The ground over which the bulk of the battles raged was only about eighty-five miles wide, a relatively modest battleground but a rather large cemetery, considering the 3,258,610 killed there and the 7,745,920 wounded, for total losses of 11,004,530 men.

I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that.

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.

When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.

Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.

War is never a meritocracy for the casualties .

War is never a meritocracy for the casualties. Shane's

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

A shocking five thousand US sailors and naval officers were killed during the Guadalcanal campaign

In every war, innocent people die.