“those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war” - winston churchill
“war making doesn’t stop war making. if it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago” - colman mccarthy
“i believe in compulsory cannibalism. if people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars” - abbie hoffman
“war is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses” - thomas jefferson
“war is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves” - leo tolstoy
“it is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labour of peace” - andre gide
“war is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms” - niccolo machiavelli
“war is cruelty. there’s no use trying to reform it. the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over” - william tecumseh sherman
”i know not with what weapons world war III will be fought, but world war IV will be fought with sticks and stones” - albert einstein
tuesday 11th june 2013, b-24h-serial number 42-52534 ‘witchcraft’, buchanan field california
Historical note of interest: This aircraft was flown on 130 Combat Missions by various crews without an early return or having any crewman injured or killed on the missions. It flew on the first Group Mission on 10 April 1944 and also the last Group Mission on 25 April 1945
790th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 467th Bombardment Group (Heavy), Second Air (Bombardment) Division, Eighth Air Force
in memory of (major) glenn miller, 1st march 1904 – 15th december 1944
peace
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