Quotes on Wwii

The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

The eyes of the world are upon you.

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.