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You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. Yes. Do they ever make more sense? No.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

Mitch Albom
War, Said
Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

Mitch Albom
War, Believe, Order
Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.55, Hachette UK

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

Mitch Albom
Confused, War, Men

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

Mitch Albom
War, Men, Saws
Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.44, Hachette UK

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