Animals In War Quotes

“Loss of life was an accepted gamble that men took when they went to war. But no animal went to war: caught up in man's lethal affairs, they were an irreconcilable aberration.”
― Sheila Burnford, Bel Ria: Dog of War

“In 2004, the Animals in War monument outside Hyde Park in London was created by the English sculptor David Backhouse. The monument includes two life-sized bronze mules carrying supplies, as well as statues of a horse and a dog and bas-relief carvings of other animals such as camels, elephants and birds who have been used in warfare. The inscription reads: *Animals in War. This monument is dedicated to all the animals that served and died alongside British and allied forces in wars and campaigns throughout time. They had no choice.* ~ John Sorenson”
― Anthony J. Nocella II, Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex

“During the war, I always felt relief when I crossed paths with a living cat. It was because they appeared in unexpected placed. High up in a tree or on the slope of a roof. Balancing themselves on a fence post. In the arms of a corpse in a ditch. I loved the way the brought me out of the landscape, briefly, into a new place--a new level to see the world we were traversing.”
― Paul Yoon, Etna