Salvatore Giunta Quotes

No point in denying who and what we are.

There were more bullets in the air than stars in the sky. A wall of bullets at every one at the same time with one crack and then a million other cracks afterwards. They're above you, in front of you, behind you, below you. They're hitting in the dirt early. They're going over your head. Just all over the place. They were close— as close as I've ever seen.

People die, and sometimes there's not a damn thing you can do about it. But that doesn't make it any easier to accept.

Every person has a first name, a middle name, and a last name. That person has a history. He has a family. He has a mother and a father, maybe a wife and a child. He has friends. Each time an American soldier dies, there is a long and powerful aftershock, rippling across continents, felt intimately by someone- maybe by many people- half a world away.

All these freedoms and pleasures we enjoy as Americans were bestowed upon us, but they came at a great cost.