From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
--Thomas Jefferson--

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 Stewart Mill--

We signed up knowing the risk. Those innocent people in New York didn't go to work thinking there was any kind of risk.
--
Pvt. Mike Armendariz-Clark, USMC--
Afghanastan, 20 September 2001
As reported on page 1 of the
New York Times