War creates many strange juxtapositions, perhaps none stranger than this: men who are doing their utmost to kill other men can transform in a split second into lifesavers. Soldiers who encounter a wounded man (often an enemy) become tender, caring angels of mercy. The urge to kill and the urge to save sometimes run together simultaneously. Stephen Ambrose
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In a war, there are no winners. There is just a different amount of losers. In a war, all the people who die are dead. The ones who survive are either winners or losers. The ones who survive do so without the ones who died ever being able to do so again.

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