he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.
Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
People told me to give up trying to be special and settle down to a regular life. There ain't nothing wrong with a regular life, and that's the Lord's truth...but it wasn't for me, because I wanted to be something special. I knew how easy it was for a dream to die. I seen that all around me. You could let it die by just looking the other way.
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.
Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
