We had come from lecture halls, school desks and factory workbenches, and over the brief weeks of training, we had bonded together into one large and enthusiastic group. Grown up in an age of security, we shared a yearning for danger, for the experience of the extraordinary. We were enraptured by war.Anonymous
About This Quote
This quote from author and retired U.S. Army Colonel David Hackworth shows how so much of our lives, from the time we are children to the time we retire, is decided by forces beyond our control. We live in a world where so much is decided for us. We have little choice about what job we will have or what school we will go to.
Things that could have been different often are not. In this quote Hackworth says that as a group of young men they were enraptured by war and that as a group of men they were willing to fight those wars that others would have avoided.
Source: Storm Of Steel
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