The Argonauts



"I've sent dozens of young men and women to their deaths. Terrible, grisly deaths. Watched as plasma boiled them alive. Listened to their screaming as Brutes ripped them limb from limb. I've spent two days in a muddy foxhole, praying and begging alongside them that a mortar won't blow me to bits. I've wept uncontrollably at their memorial services. They aren't just my men. They're my children. What do you consider them? Numbers on report? Maybe I'm not the sociopath here, Lieutenant Colonel"

- - A segment of Capt. Yossarian's psych report.