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“Donald had promised those historically significant artifacts to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Realizing that removing them in one piece would cost money and slow down construction, he instead ordered that they be destroyed.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

“If war is the most extreme experience of the human condition, to make a simplistic moral judgement that all war is wrong and therefore all war is wrong and therefore all compulsion to study it similarly tarnished, is a wish to remain in dangerous ignorance.”
― Luke Turner, Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945

“Instead of a necessary processing, a readjustment, a redefinition as a post-imperial island that ought to have learned from the terrors of its past conflicts to forge closer relationships with Europe, the jingoistic memory of the war gives a boost to a national selfhood that is gaseous and unsustainable, forever on the edge of - and perhaps now finally - collapsing into hubris.”
― Luke Turner, Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945

“Join the military, disappear into the wider whole; the pool of comradeship, discipline and military efficiency that is the physical representation of the nation at war.”
― Luke Turner, Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945