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“It’s a pretty simple tale. Though descended from impure bloodlines, he joined the guerrillas to fight the Japanese. His comrades doubted his loyalties. To prove they could trust him with their lives, he took his own.”
Adam Johnson • The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
It seemed in those few moments as if time had been suspended, that the wave curling over us might never break. Pure delusion, of course. The future was hurtling towards us, Achilles’s life measured now in days not weeks.
Pat Barker • The Silence of the Girls: A Novel
a warrior is known not just by muscle and valor, but by scars.
David Von Drehle • The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
Colonel John Boyd’s OODA loop, Three Years in Mississippi, and Herodotus’ The Persian Wars.
Gregg Hurwitz • Nemesis: 'Makes the Jack Reacher books look quaint' - The Sun
Centurion’s Guild, a support group for current and former service members (http://centurionsguild.org/). He and I traveled back to Iraq together—without weapons. And he has now written several books about peacemaking, including Reborn on the Fourth of July and For God and Country (In That Order).