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Notable Quotes from Selected Chapters

In Her Majesty's Service: "What Did You Do in the War Daddy?"

Going Up Country: "Into the Belly of the Beast"

Odi Oma Kya? ”Oh captain! My captain!”

Overrun: “Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.”    

The Stars and Stripes:  “O'er the land of the free”    

Beautiful Gook Maiden:  “Taking a simple thing like love and making it complicated”

"The happiest people I knew were the ones who derived their joy from serving others. The unhappiest types were those who were constantly reminding you of how unfair life was, and of how poorly they’d been treated by it."

Sins of God and Man:  “We have met the enemy and they are us”

L.A. Fantasy: “All the world’s a stage”

Requiem for the Ones Who Were:“He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother”

When Good Men Go Down:  “It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”