David Chrisinger > Quotes

“It was at that point that I started probing them about what they wanted from America. Here's what they told me: "We want our kids to go out and play. We want them to go out and play and not feel like they're going to get hurt. I want my kid to not be on the computer all day long. I want him to go outside and play. I want him to not be on computer games. I want my kids to go to school. I want my wife to be happy. I want..."
"That's what we cant back home," I said.
"Why would it be so different?" he said. Why would you think that what I want in my quality of life is so vastly different from yours?”
― David Chrisinger, See Me for Who I Am: Student Veterans' Stories of War and Coming Home

“That is how this story ends—not with closure but with accountability; not with healing—not really—but with recognition; not with silence but with a record that survived long enough to be heard.”
― David Chrisinger, Writing Against the Reich: The Secret Diary of Dachau

“I cannot tell you personally what it is like to go to war. I've never been to war. What I can tell you is this: I know what it looks like when a man comes home from war and never finds that path that could lead him to a life of peace.”
― David Chrisinger, The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II

“The goal is not to stop the story so the evidence can speak. The goal is to let the evidence finish a sentence the story has already begun.”
― David Chrisinger, More Than Personal: Transform Your Lived Experience into Political Change