Peter Boos

“The home the military top brass had created for themselves was "picturesque, romantic and unreal", he wrote. "It was as though men were playing at war here, while others 60 miles away were fighting and dying in mud and gas-waves and explosive barrages.”
― Margot Asquith, A History of the Great War in 100 Moments: An Evocation of the Conflict Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived Through It - Based on the Acclaimed Newspaper Series

“Today is born our Savior, Christ the Lord.”
― Kathleen Furman, Reading God's Word 2014-2015 - Daily Mass Readings for Year B

“the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel.”
― Kathleen Furman, Reading God's Word 2014-2015 - Daily Mass Readings for Year B

“Between 1914 and 1919 young men and women, disastrously pure in heart and unsuspicious of elderly self-interest and cynical exploitation, were continually re-dedicating themselves - as I did that morning in Boulogne - to an end that they believed, and went on trying to believe, lofty and ideal.”
― Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth