There Are Things

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it.  Then you understand the horror of war.

Any soldier worth his salt should be anti-war.

And still there are things worth fighting for.

-- H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. (1934 - 2012), also known as Stormin' Norman, US Army 4 Star General, Commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991, as quoted in U.S. News & World Report, Vol. 110, Issues 5 (11 February 1991), p. 32