“Sometimes, thinking just didn’t do any good, didn’t provide any answers. Because for some questions—such as the arbitrariness of life and death during wartime—there weren’t any answers.”

— Charles E. Gannon

Source: Trial by Fire (2014), Chapter 27 (p. 402)

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