I’ve always found the celebration of war casualties to be a strange reason for a holiday. War is fraught with contradiction…

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
-Ulysses S. Grant

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
-George Carlin

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
-Voltaire

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
-Bertrand Russell

Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

War is not an adventure.  It is a disease.  It is like typhus.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery