Post-War Struggles Quotes

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.

I can't stand the idea of a veteran risking her or his life for this country, suffering the wounds of battle, and then being kicked to the curb as a result of those wounds. But that is exactly what has happened to tens of thousands of men & women who have fought and bled for our country.

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.

There is an attitude that Okinawans have about Japan itself. There is a resentment.

The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.