“They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.”
“I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.”
“It was my view then, and still is, that you don’t make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can’t fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can’t make them undead.”