Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

I’ll go to sleep now or I just woke up? How was he going to know? And a guy had to know. That was important. It was the most important thing left. All he had was a mind and he

There are plenty of laws to protect guys’ money even in war time but there’s nothing on the books says a man’s life’s his own.

Tell us how much better a decent dead man feels than an indecent live one.

You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else’s life. They’re plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congresses. That’s their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead. Hmmmm. But what do the dead say?

He was the future he was a perfect picture of the future and they were afraid to let anyone see what the future was like.

You plan the wars you masters of men plan the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.