Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger cause…

- Elizabeth Samet

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.

- Elizabeth Samet

courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, somet…

- Elizabeth Samet