“We do not know or seek what our fate will be. We ask only this, that if die we must, that we die as men would die, without complaining, without pleading and safe in the feeling that we have done our best for what we believed was right.”
– Lt. Col. Robert L. Wolverton, Commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Paratroop Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”
Chief Writing Wolf 
Great post.
Bertrand Russell had it right, he might should have continued that thought with, ‘and they will write the history books so all the horror will be forgotten.’