Sebastian Junger Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker who not only illuminates war for civilians, but also offers a kind of spiritual guidance to vets themselves. As this generation of warriors comes home, they will be enormously helped by what Marlantes has written. I’m sure he will literally save lives.

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  Spiritual, War, Eye

• War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

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  Veterans Day, Military, War

  "War". Book by Sebastian Junger, www.hoover.org. 2010.

• Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.

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  War, Winning, Fire

• During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

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  Death, War, Men

• Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders.

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  Country, Jobs, War

• Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

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  War, Missing, Soldier

  Twitter post from Dec 07, 2015

• The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

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  War, Divorce, Car

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, film.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

• I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

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  War, Thinking, People

  "Journalist Sebastian Junger". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 10, 2011.

• War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

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  War, Useless, Exciting

• I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

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  War, Thinking, Should Have

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

• I’ve stopped war reporting. I realized that I’d answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

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  War, I Realized

  "Sebastian Junger on the Value and Cost of War Reporting and Making a Film About His Late ‘Restrepo’ Co-Director Tim Hetherington". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 16, 2013.

• Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.

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  War, Reality, Understanding

• No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

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  Jobs, War, Gun

• War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.

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  War, Men, Careers

  "Director Sebastian Junger Talks RESTREPO Follow-Up KORENGAL, Helping People Understand the Realistic Effects of War, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 14, 2014.

• One interesting thing I found was that if you take an affluent modern society and collapse it during a crisis, like a war or a natural disaster, people begin relating in a more ancient, organic way. They're functioning in small interdependent groups and putting others first. And another irony is that even in terrible times, cooperating makes people feel good.

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  War, People, Interesting

  Source: www.oprah.com

• If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.

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  War, Night, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

• If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

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  Military, War, Cities

  Sebastian Junger (2001). “Fire”, p.178, W. W. Norton & Company

• Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the brutal civil war, even people who had been badly wounded told me they missed those times. They were missing their more courageous selves.

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  War, People, Missing

  Source: www.oprah.com

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