Quotes from authors that died on Jul 18th
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland
It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
William Westmoreland
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Horatio Alger
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
John Paul Jones
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl A. Menninger
Arsenio Hall 
Vincent D'Onofrio 
Robert F. Goheen 
George Gaylord Simpson 
Luke Ford 
Ben Jonson 
Martin McGuinness 
Richard Brautigan