Edward McFarlane

“Oddly, they were never sanguine about their own combat prowess. Most of them, officers and men, felt a deep respect for, and almost an inferiority before, the various professionals that comprised the other U.N. troops in Korea. Their praise of the allies—the French, Thais, Turks, and Abyssinians—was far removed from the grousing about allies that had marked most previous wars. Most Americans, privately, would admit the U.N. troops were better than they were.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

“Scared animals return home, regardless of whether home is safe or frightening.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“We all live with expensive ghosts in memory’s unmade bed, for what we do not remember remembers us nonetheless”
― James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

“Americans should remember that while barbarians may be ignorant they are not always stupid.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War