"War is undoubtedly the biggest transformation that anyone can go through. It results in a total personality change. From the lowest soldier to the highest echelons, war takes a person, it inveigles its way into their heart, their mind and their soul. It takes what was there and makes it different. Mindsets, believes and duties. War is more cutting then any surgeon's scalpel. I knew that. I had seen war at its rawest, its most insidious, its most evil
It makes a man determined to protect what he has, what he cherishes. For me it was not just my family I wanted to keep safe from further harm. It was also my country"
"The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery" 1958