Russell Riechmann

“If you ask any good sniper, he will tell you that making the kill is better than sex. If you offer this sniper an opportunity to shoot twelve enemy soldiers or to hop in bed with a Playboy playmate, the sniper will choose the chance to make the kills first—then he will want the girl, too!”
― Hans Halberstadt, Trigger Men: Shadow Team, Spider-Man, the Magnificent Bastards, and the American Combat Sniper

“My only answer as to why the Marines get the toughest jobs is because the average Leatherneck is a much better fighter. He has far more guts, courage, and better officers... These boys out here have a pride in the Marine Corps and will fight to the end no matter what the cost.”~ 2nd Lt. Richard C. Kennard,”
― Raphael A. Hughes, Military Quotes: No guts, no glory.

“When considering stories like these, two things become immediately apparent. Firstly it appears that the moral landscape of Europe had become every bit as unrecognizable as the physical landscape. Those who had grown used to living amidst ruins no longer saw anything unusual about the rubble that surrounded them – likewise for many of Europe’s women after the war there was no longer anything unusual about having to sell one’s body for food. It was left to those coming from outside continental Europe to express surprise at the wreckage they were witnessing.”
― Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II