Here's Your Remembernce

"i'm not aware that there is such a thing as Southern art, at least not if you're defining it by technique. All southerners who try to express themselves through art (. . .) are very much aware that they are party to a defeat(. . .). - Shelby Foote

The essential thing about anti-guerrilla warfare -- one must hammer this home to everybody --is that what succeeds is right. -- Adolph Hitler

He was now undersuch great strain that he tried not to think of anything but the next attack, the next diminishment of Sixth Army's men, and just as we spend moments and years counting ourselves wise in the spending of themand hopeful almost to certainty that today's temporary difficulties will be stabilized tomorrow and then there will come no new misfortunes, not ever, so he believed, and avoided weighing that belief, that after he dispatched to their deaths a few thousand more of Sixth Army men,Stalingrad would be won. -- William T. Vollmann