SACRIFICE: NOBLEST OF MANKIND

"The soldier, above all other men, is required to perfom the highest act of religious teaching - sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in his own image. No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the palce of the divine annuncation and spiritual uplift which will alone sustain him. However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest develoment of mankind."
~ General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 14 July 1935, address to the verterans of the Rainbow (42nd) Division, A Soldier Speaks, 1965

SACRIFICE: GLORY BORN

"Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind."

~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)~

SACRIFICE: UNIVERSAL GOOD

"Who lives for honour must know how to die for the universal good."

~ Gustavus II Adolphus, 30 Apr 1632, to his commanders, who commented on how close he had come to death in the day's fighting along the River Lech, quoted in Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Gustavus Adolphus, 1895 ~

SACRIFICE: KAMIKAZE MOON

"Refreshingly,

After the violent storm,

The moon rose radient."

~ Vice-Admiral Takijiro Ohnishi,

Commander, Kamikaze Special Attack Force

- his final haiku before committing suicide, 15 Aug 1945, quoted in Inoguchi and Nakajima, The Devine Wind, 1955