"I watched [the doctors] for a long time. Squinting into the bright light, the blood on their green tunics could have been grease, the swathed bodies, odd soft machines that they were fixing. But the machines would cry out in their sleep, and the mechanics muttered reassurances while they plied their greasy tools."
From Joe Haldeman's The Forever War. The quote has to do with Haldeman's views on how the military(or -ies) treat their soldiers. It's generally considered to be the anti-war/military answer to Heinlein's Starship Troopers. It's a great read; I find in it the great irony that in order to stop an intergalactic, humanity ceases to be exactly that.*********
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From Joe Haldeman's The Forever War. The quote has to do with Haldeman's views on how the military(or -ies) treat their soldiers. It's generally considered to be the anti-war/military answer to Heinlein's Starship Troopers. It's a great read; I find in it the great irony that in order to stop an intergalactic, humanity ceases to be exactly that.*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
www.venganza.org