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Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

It's easier to get people to talk to you if you're a vet and you want to interview a vet about war. Sometimes they open up a little bit easier.

I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

If you write a novel where war is nothing but hell and no one experiences excitement or cracks a dark joke, then you're not actually admitting the full experience.

We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage.

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.

People can learn the tragedy of war from me.

In war time, nowhere is safe.

I hated myself. I hated people who made war. I hated people who were normal. I envied them. I wish I would be normal.

Nine years old, I became the victim of war. I didn't like that picture at all. I felt like, why he took my picture, when I was agony, naked, so ugly? I wished that picture wasn't taken.

You will remember me as a little child in another time, during another war, and involving another airplane.

God used me that day. Even though so much of my body was burned, my feet were not burned, and so I could run out and be there for that photo. It saved a lot of souls and brought an end to the war.

I have my foundation, I help the children who are victims of war, and I talk about kids and I help people to understand how horrible war is and how beautiful the world can be if we can live with love, hope, and forgiveness.

I was a happy child, just 9 years old, and I knew nothing about war.