War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it. Its glory is all moonshine. Only
those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the
wounded cry aloud for blood, vengeance, and desolation. War is as close to hell
as a merciful God allows upon this earth.
-- Harry Turtledove How Few
Remain
We need young men, their energy and their enthusiasm and their idealism.
-- Harry Turtledove How Few
Remain