The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.

I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.

Friedrich St. Florian Quotes