Wounded Soldier Quotes

“You can't imagine what the interior of sixteen or eighteen cubic feet is like with all of these people screaming, and yelling, and talking, and howling. [...] Not to mention the radio squealing. And the bullets flying. And explosions going up. You just can't imagine the chaos that goes through your head. And it requires immense concentration, and effort, to focus on what you job is. [Tom Kelley, Vietnam Medic from December 1967-December 1968, speaking about events inside the medevac helicopters]”
― Elizabeth Partridge, Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam

“Mrs. Dodge stepped forward and laid her hand on his arm.

"John?" she called in a strident voice that made Arabella wince. "John, here's Arabella to see you."
John rolled his head with a fitful movement, and the light from the lamp at the foot of his bed fell full across his face.

Arabella stepped back with a gasp of shock.”
― Sarah Brazytis, The Letter

“How would he protect her, as weak and wounded as he was? If the two armies were about to shell the town again, he had to find a safe place for her to be. And if the Confederates gained Gettysburg itself, they would probably take him as a prisoner. He needed to make sure that Arabella had a place of safety...”
― Sarah Brazytis, The Letter

“Whether my feelings were right or not, every day I felt relieved he was wounded. I was relieved he limped because he slept in my arms at night. I was relieved he had nothing more important to do than study or fish because I saw him every morning when I woke up. I couldn't tell him. I could never tell him, because the fact that he was not out there with all the other boys risking their lives for our country, for the world, was killing him. Every day it was killing him. But he was brave.”
― Jessica Glasner, Song of the Storm Petrel