Dewey Decimal

“He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'

The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“The only thing that remained a constant was my presence; I didn’t take any days off. It wasn’t that I didn’t trust my NCOs to make the right decisions; it was that I wasn’t going to ask my Marines to do a job that I wasn’t willing to do. They needed to know that I was a leader willing to stand beside them when the chips were down and we had to walk through hell to get the job done.”
― GySgt L. Christian Bussler, No Tougher Duty, No Greater Honor: A memoir of a Mortuary Affairs Marine

“Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“again identified myself and each of my teammates, and then I reiterated that we were ready to begin the recovery process of his troops and that we couldn’t begin until he got off the Bradley. With a glassy gaze, he resisted at first, and then slowly his shoulders rolled forward and went limp, and so did the anguish in his face. He finally surrendered his grief to reason, and with a whisper, he quietly begged his staff for help. “My boys…we have to get my boys out of there. Help me get my boys out.”
― GySgt L. Christian Bussler, No Tougher Duty, No Greater Honor: A memoir of a Mortuary Affairs Marine