“What finally decided me was what happened in that village in Tibet; we had airdropped in during the night to get between the Indians and the Chinese. I had never seen poverty or disease like that and I wondered why guns were the only thing we could bring them.”

—  Harry Harrison

Source: Plague from Space (1965), Chapter 3 (p. 25; the character is explaining why he left the army to go into medicine)

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