Holy Ground Quotes

“Holy”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“Marines, one and all. “Hoorah and Semper Fi, you magnificent bastards.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“Mission accomplished.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“And there he went, wasting one of his curse words.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“He dropped his Sig over the edge of the berm and pulled the stock into his shoulder, and took a second to get a good cheek weld. He settled in then and waited.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“These old dudes are strange.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“Gentlemen, raise me a couple flags.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“But few are the places that get to choose between life and death.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“The Mule, what the Marines called a Jeep just because they were Marines and couldn’t be bothered to use the official designation,”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“It was perfect for submarine warfare. Which kind of sucked when you were being hunted by a submarine, frankly.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“That Major, Liam is it?” The SecDef spoke up, “He’s trending.” “He’s what?” “Look at this,” The SecDef slid a tablet across the table to the President. Givens lifted it up, looking at the picture on it, of the man standing in front of an explosion with a Marine Kevlar helmet sitting crookedly on his head and a rifle balanced on one shoulder. “The memes are basically making themselves at this point.” Givens rolled his eyes, “Oh lord.” “That’s the upside. Russia and China, among others, have started counter-memes already.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“That Major, Liam is it?” The SecDef spoke up, “He’s trending.” “He’s what?” “Look at this,” The SecDef slid a tablet across the table to the President. Givens lifted it up, looking at the picture on it, of the man standing in front of an explosion with a Marine Kevlar helmet sitting crookedly on his head and a rifle balanced on one shoulder. “The”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“It had been more than a century, but the shores of Iwo were tasting blood again.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“They’re not planning on holding the Island, Max,” Eric said softly. “They’re planning on dying on it.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“Don’t worry about it, corporal. Ignorance is forgivable, willful ignorance is not,”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“Hadrian swallowed. He didn’t have enough curse words in his vocabulary.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“Eric had a flash of calm then, and almost laughed as he came to a realization. Apparently, we’re on the right track with this thing.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“Command Hiller grimaced, “The port screw is, well, screwed sir. Pardon the language. We had to cut it loose, it was dragging that badly.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“It would be the death of a thousand cuts to make it happen,”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“God created man, the Wright brothers gave us flight, but tonight? General Dynamics makes us equal.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“He was moderately surprised that this group of Marines was headed in the sane direction. But then again, he supposed that had more to do with the fact that they were all unarmed than it did with their relative brain power.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“There was a story that a Japanese Admiral had once said that invading the United States mainland would be the height of suicidal foolishness because any invaders would face a rifle behind every blade of grass.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“VTOL was rarely authorized when they had a nice long runway available. Among other things, it was a lot harder on fuel than a normal takeoff, not to mention somewhat riskier. Since it was also a lot more fun, however, he wasn’t about to complain.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“Two more magazines after his current one was empty, three grenades, his knife, and enough curse words to choke a pissed off elephant. Fuck. And there he went, wasting one of his curse words.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground

“He wasn’t quite fucked, but it wasn’t too far from that either.”
― Evan Currie, Holy Ground