Eric Blehm Quotes & Sayings

Tender Warrior," Adam replied and showed John the cover. "You can read it; I'm almost done. Check this out," he said, thumbing backward through the pages. "It was written by Stu Weber, a Vietnam veteran, Special Forces. He became a chaplain. — Eric Blehm

The least I owe these mountains is a body. - Randy Morgenson — Eric Blehm

guess it's like driving a car, you gotta watch out for the other guy! I — Eric Blehm

Our lives are not good - it is not the Afghanistan we remember - but it is still life. — Eric Blehm

villages were regularly patrolled by the Taliban. — Eric Blehm

Modest, conventional expectations weren't enough to lure Adam Brown away from the power of drug addiction that ensnared him. Instead, the college dropout already in his mid-twenties found only the big, near-impossible dream of being a Navy SEAL captivating enough to consistently draw him to different choices. — Eric Blehm

just programmed into the bomb's guidance system. "Hey!" the copilot told the Delta operator. "We don't — Eric Blehm

Back in civilization I begin the questioning," wrote Randy. "What to do with life? What kind of life? In wilderness this ceases; the questions aren't answered, they dissolve." BEFORE — Eric Blehm

Randy had even told the younger ranger, 'There's nothing s season in the backcountry can't cure. — Eric Blehm

Other than hunting down the terrorists responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001, Amerine suspected that the United States had no comprehensive plan, military or otherwise. — Eric Blehm

The Taliban began as a Pashtun movement in Afghanistan, then spread into Pakistan. Now the Pakistani Taliban have earned the reputation as the most cruel in the Afghan villages I visited. In Afghanistan, they are away from their own homes and villages and seem to carry out their atrocities more readily. They are trained to be terrorists in the most fundamental sense of the word: to become legendary for the creativity of the horrors they're able to commit. — Eric Blehm

and following your ideals is the only thing worth dying for. — Eric Blehm

Wilderness An area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. - Howard Zahniser Perhaps — Eric Blehm

British General Andrew Skeen, who faced a similar military mission in 1939, wrote, "When planning a military expedition into Pashtun tribal areas, the first thing you must plan is your retreat. All expeditions into this area sooner or later end in retreat under fire. — Eric Blehm

the Afghans were well aware of what happened in Iraq during the Gulf War, when the Shiites and Kurds believed the leaflets the Americans dropped urging them to rise up against Saddam Hussein. They did, and the Americans did not come. Saddam's forces had retaliated by massacring the insurgents. "The Afghans in the south fear the same fate - they need to be assured — Eric Blehm

It's a fucked-up war when you are more worried about fighting your chain of command than the actual enemy. — Eric Blehm

Limbaji grinned widely and reached for a stone. "But this is what different religions mean," he said, placing the stone on the ground. "God is for all men, he is always the same. There is only one. And all men finally go to the same God." He drew lines toward the stone in the dust. "But there are different roads. — Eric Blehm

But pieces of paper do not stop bullets and rockets. Paper promises that fall from the sky cannot be trusted. — Eric Blehm

There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent. — Eric Blehm

And so the moral of his fabled travels read like Santiago's, the boy in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist: Randy had traveled around the world in search of treasure and came home to find it in his own backyard. He — Eric Blehm

You gotta do what you gotta do, and when you're done, you'll be stronger. — Eric Blehm

In any case, perhaps the quest for data to support our actions gets overemphasized. After all, our emotions distinguish us. Art and poetry and music are from and to the human heart, as is, for many, our relationship with the land.' ~ Randy Morgenson — Eric Blehm

And he always stood up for the underdog--never realizing that because of his size he was one himself. — Eric Blehm

His supervisor, a well-liked ranger by the name of Dick McLaren, gave Randy a line of advice to which he would adhere for the rest of his career: 'The best way to teach the public isn't with a citation, it's with communication. — Eric Blehm

Don't ever put your life on the line for something you don't believe in. — Eric Blehm