John Glenn Quotes

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.

The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1967.

We never want to update 'Black Watch,' because it's about a moment in time, and through that moment, it manages to speak about Afghanistan and all other wars. This play is 'about' Iraq, but it's actually about every war that's ever been or will ever be.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

People like to talk about war.

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

Bloody Ground