Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.
The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.
Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.