“The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.”
“Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.”
“Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ”
“Infants were tossed up in the air and used as the targets for machine guns”
“The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.”
“We had seen too many horrors already, and we could see and hear more explosions all around us as the war continued, very close to our hiding place; machine gun fire and the sounds of grenades – all very frightening.”