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24 Feb 2007 05:07 pm
Walter Reed
A reader writes:
The soldier's email about Walter Reed reminds me of this quote, which Bernard Fall used as an epigraph for "Hell In A Very Small Place", his classic history of Dien Bien Phu:
"When a nation re-awakens, its finest sons are prepared to give their lives for its liberation. When empires are threatened with collapse, they are prepared to sacrifice their non-commissioned officers."
That's Menachem Begin, in 1951.
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