The Ground You Stand Upon Quotes

“As I listened to their conversation, what struck me is that despite their outward appearance, they weren’t old men to me. To me, they were the same nineteen and twenty-year-old kids they were over fifty years ago. It is, perhaps, the most unexpected thing that I’ve gained from this whole experience – the ability to see past someone’s age and appearance, to see them for who they’ve been their whole life.”
― Joshua Bowe, The Ground You Stand Upon: Life of a Skytrooper in Vietnam

“For those of us who have not been to war, the best we can do is to simply understand that we can never understand.”
― Joshua Bowe, The Ground You Stand Upon: Life of a Skytrooper in Vietnam