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If I Don't Return...
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""I hope you'll find this book more than a journal of a war long past. Instead, see it as a testament to growth through experience, to friends who gave more than they asked for in return, and to the potential all of us have for reflecting on our past.
May you be as blessed as I was when you reflect on your own journey."

Dangit, I'm already misty at the dedication page."
— Jun 24, 2026 08:09AM

 
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"I love me a green knight, or foliate head, or green man, or whatever we're calling this fella:

"Then he beheld an elfin form,
a living woodland wight!
Green was his steed and green his greaves,
his chainmail linked of silver leaves.
He rode out from the forest eaves
and cried, 'Stand fast, false knight!'""
— Jun 13, 2026 11:39PM

 
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M.L. Wang
“I’m starting to understand how ridiculous it is to demand civility when the world is so disgustingly uncivil.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

Samantha Shannon
“I confess I am what you would call a sorceress, but no magic is evil. It is what the wielder makes it.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“I hope you'll find this book more than a journal of a war long past. Instead, see it as a testament to growth through experience, to friends who gave more than they asked for in return, and to the potential all of us have for reflecting on our past.
May you be as blessed as I was when you reflect on your own journey.”
― Mark Hertling, If I Don't Return: A Father's Wartime Journal

Brandon Sanderson
“Around other people, you couldn’t keep doing the same thing. They forced you to adapt. Grow.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Isles of the Emberdark

T.H. White
“...and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. They cannot come to us, and our imaginations can but feebly penetrate to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedral, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some faint conceptions float before us of what these men were when they were alive.”
― T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone

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