Once an Eagle
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“Well, we’re a grand and glorious nation, but it strikes me we’re all a little naïve—we think if we pick the other fellow up and dust him off and shake hands, we can all wander into the corner saloon and tell one another what swell guys we are. A pleasant view of the world, but a touch sentimental.
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“Massengale will never make an enemy and he’ll never have a friend.”
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Chaos is the condition of man—chaos and uncertainty. The person who can act with force and decision at such a moment, turns the consciousness of his time. What is the epic but poetic celebration of this assertion? Whether it’s Jason or Achilles or Napoleon … ”
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“This war will never be over,” she said in a dull monotone. “It’s still 1918 really: the same war. It never ended. We only thought it did. It’s the same one, and it’s going to go on for a hundred years. Oh, they’ll change the uniforms and tanks and planes, they’ll talk about different objectives, different war aims but it’ll be the same broken, gasping bodies in the wards, the same forlorn little burial parties nobody knows or cares about. It’ll go on and on because we can’t let it alone. We’ve become more fond of war than of anything else … Look!” she commanded, sweeping the room with her ...more