One Million Steps Quotes

“Fire restrictions on conventional forces who were viewed as community organizers again tightened.”
― Bing West, One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War

“Although the Taliban inflicted six times more civilian fatalities, President Karzai escalated his rants about American-caused casualties and released those imprisoned for killing Americans.”
― Bing West, One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War

“As I strolled the streets of Mobile, civilian life seemed so strange,” Sledge wrote. “People rushed around in a hurry about seemingly insignificant things. Few seemed to realize how blessed they were to be free and untouched by the horrors of war. To them, a veteran was a veteran—all were the same, whether one man had survived the deadliest combat or another had pounded a typewriter while in uniform.” When he enrolled”
― Bing West, One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War