Quotes About Sacrifice

As a sea is full of drops of liquid, I was but one in the ocean of WarMany are swept ruthlessly into the battering, bashing waves, and only few survive to swim to shore

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

The unchangeable price of everything more precious and valuable is blood.

It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits

In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...

We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.

Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.

What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.

Damn the wars but bless the soldier.

5, 6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.

An infantryman's job is to deliver his enemies into the waiting hands of Death. It is Doc's job to protect his brothers from Death, to knock him aside and say, "Not today.

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.

Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

Above all Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.