Doug Stanton Quotes

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.

Some made the ultimate sacrifice. The rest of us were lucky.

War is about strategic agendas and epic battles that define nations and shape history. War is about courage and heroism, but it is also about pain and suffering and sorrow and tragedy

The real heroes of WWII never came home.

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

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

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

It felt like a very, very weird thing to go on the set on September 13th. I would never want to glorify that.

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

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

It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.

Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero.