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War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

by Andrew Carroll

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May 01, 2021 09:58PM

“To know the place of his grave from early childhood has an effect on a man. To place flowers on the ground where he himself will one day lie makes him fatalistic, pessimistic. Ambition and ideas for life atrophy - after all, what is the point? Life’s point, on this island, was always clearly visible, up there on the hillside.”
― Anne Zouroudi, The Messenger of Athens

tags: death, fatalism, fate, inevitability, small-town-life

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“He remembered, too, the day an exhausted horseman - dusty sash of Carthahinian purple around his chest - caught up to the army with a message. War had been formally declared. Carthage had refused to hand Hannibal over to Rome. Standing in the senate at Carthage the senior member of the Roman delegation had held out two fists, one for war and the other for peace. Which did Carthage choose? Defiantly, the suffete, the chief magistrate of the senate, replied that it was Rome’s choice. “We choose war,” the Roman replied. “And we accept it,” the Carthaginian senators cried out.”
― Sam Osherson, The Wolf Boy: A Novel

tags: carthage, punic-wars, rome, second-punic-war, war

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