John Tiffany Quotes

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

I recognise fully why people wear poppies, I totally respect everyone's right to do so and I have total sympathy for anyone who has lost loved ones due to conflict.

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

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

I'm glad I never went to war.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

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.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

'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.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

I've walked on a lot of battlefields. Most of them are not haunted.

I cry all the time. Remembrance Day in particular. In fact, anything to do with veterans makes me sob.

I didn't see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.

9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since.