I Never Know What To Say......

The father of my best buddy in junior high school died suddenly of a heart attack one day. We were very young and didn't know how to react to such things. I went to the wake and just didn't know what to say or do. Decades later, loss and the grief associated with tragedy is not one bit easier.

So, with the events in London, I will let others speak for me.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
-Winston Churchill-

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
-Sun Tzu-

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
-Winston Churchill-

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
-Winston Churchill-

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
-John Stuart Mill-

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
-Robert E. Lee-

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
-Sun Tzu-