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Historical literature

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common, quality of human nature.

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1776

★ 2.0

Film · War (film) · War

They come from the end of the line, most of 'em—small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee; Brandon, Mississippi; Pork Bend, Utah; Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it. Maybe if they're lucky, a job waiting for them back in a factory. But most of 'em got nothing. They're poor. They're the unwanted. Yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom. It's weird, isn't it? At the bottom of the barrel, they know it. Maybe that's why they call themselves "grunts", 'cause a grunt can take it—can take anything.

Chris

Platoon · 1986

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

Theodore Roosevelt

1903

★ 1.9

Film · War (film) · Thriller (film) · War · Thriller

But you realize every time you suit up, every time we go out, it's life or death. You roll the dice...and you deal with it.

Sergeant JT Sanborn

The Hurt Locker · 2008

★ 1.9

Slowly the reality of it all formed in my mind: we were expendable! It was difficult to accept. We come from a nature and a culture that values life and the individual. To find oneself in a situation where your life seems of little value is the ultimate in loneliness. It is a humbling experience.

E.B. Sledge

1981

★ 1.7

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