“Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People will get their respect for you from that-partly from that, don't get me wrong-but if you can say that you were up front where there was some real shooting going on, then that will mean a whole lot to you in years to come.”

—  John Knowles , book A Separate Peace

Mr. Hadley on war.
Source: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 191

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