Originally Posted by
jungle
War is hell. And a good thing too, were it not so we might become too fond of it. With apologies to the originator.
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Statement at the Battle of Fredericksburg (13th December 1862)