“There are words they promise us — glory, honor.
But all those words really mean is murder.
The man at the end of my blade is me.
Me, defending a different country.
A different wife.
A different mother.
A different child.
He wears a different face,
but fights for the same reasons.
He wants to kill me, the stranger,
as I do him.
And yet, the strangest thing of all
isn’t the murder.
It’s the glory.”
- M. S. Fitzpatrick
“There are words they promise us — glory, honor.
But all those words really mean is murder.
The man at the end of my blade is me.
Me, defending a different country.
A different wife.
A different mother.
A different child.
He wears a different face,
but fights for the same reasons.
He wants to kill me, the stranger,
as I do him.
And yet, the strangest thing of all
isn’t the murder.
It’s the glory.”
- M. S. Fitzpatrick
