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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
by Jon Krakauer
by Jon Krakauer
Where Men Win Glory (Jon Krakauer)
- Highlight on Page 39 | Loc. 590-91 | Added on Friday, March 25, 2011, 03:13 PM
Encouraged to think critically and be skeptical of conventional wisdom, Pat learned to trust in himself and be unafraid to buck the herd.
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Where Men Win Glory (Jon Krakauer)
- Highlight on Page 53 | Loc. 804-7 | Added on Sunday, March 27, 2011, 02:17 PM
The bomb had been assembled, delivered, and detonated by a Kuwaiti named Ramzi Yousef, under the supervision of his uncle Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who would later be identified as “the principal architect” of the attack against the same buildings on September 11, 2001. Yousef had learned the art of making bombs from a manual written by the CIA for the mujahideen to use in their struggle against the Soviets. He was given the CIA instruction booklet while attending an al-Qaeda training camp in Khost, Afghanistan, in 1991 or 1992.
Where Men Win Glory (Jon Krakauer)
- Highlight on Page 231 | Loc. 3532-33 | Added on Wednesday, April 06, 2011, 03:56 PM
‘Do you really believe that? Why? Don’t accept everything you read. You should question it all, take what makes sense, and throw away the rest.’
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Where Men Win Glory (Jon Krakauer)
- Highlight on Page 233 | Loc. 3567-73 | Added on Wednesday, April 06, 2011, 04:00 PM
Pat and Kevin were familiar with the words of Hermann Göring, Hitler’s Reichsmarschall, who in 1946, shortly before he was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, notoriously observed: Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship…. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same way in any country.
Where Men Win Glory (Jon Krakauer)
- Highlight on Page 296 | Loc. 4529-31 | Added on Monday, April 11, 2011, 05:44 PM
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despite, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. — AESCHYLUS, Agamemnon
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- Highlight on Page 39 | Loc. 590-91 | Added on Friday, March 25, 2011, 03:13 PM
Encouraged to think critically and be skeptical of conventional wisdom, Pat learned to trust in himself and be unafraid to buck the herd.
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Where Men Win Glory (Jon Krakauer)
- Highlight on Page 53 | Loc. 804-7 | Added on Sunday, March 27, 2011, 02:17 PM
The bomb had been assembled, delivered, and detonated by a Kuwaiti named Ramzi Yousef, under the supervision of his uncle Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who would later be identified as “the principal architect” of the attack against the same buildings on September 11, 2001. Yousef had learned the art of making bombs from a manual written by the CIA for the mujahideen to use in their struggle against the Soviets. He was given the CIA instruction booklet while attending an al-Qaeda training camp in Khost, Afghanistan, in 1991 or 1992.
Where Men Win Glory (Jon Krakauer)
- Highlight on Page 231 | Loc. 3532-33 | Added on Wednesday, April 06, 2011, 03:56 PM
‘Do you really believe that? Why? Don’t accept everything you read. You should question it all, take what makes sense, and throw away the rest.’
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Where Men Win Glory (Jon Krakauer)
- Highlight on Page 233 | Loc. 3567-73 | Added on Wednesday, April 06, 2011, 04:00 PM
Pat and Kevin were familiar with the words of Hermann Göring, Hitler’s Reichsmarschall, who in 1946, shortly before he was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, notoriously observed: Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship…. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same way in any country.
Where Men Win Glory (Jon Krakauer)
- Highlight on Page 296 | Loc. 4529-31 | Added on Monday, April 11, 2011, 05:44 PM
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despite, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. — AESCHYLUS, Agamemnon
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