# Quote — Lynn Compton, Call of Duty

> To try to distinguish between our objectives in World War II and the war we are fighting today- that one war was justified and the other isn't- is a complete fallacy. All wars are wars of choice. The Revolutionary War was a war of choice- we could have stayed British subjects if we had wanted. Equally so, we could have chosen not to fight World War II if we had wanted. But there were compelling reasons to fight both the Revolutionary War and World War II, as there are compelling reasons to fight the war against terror today.

- Author: [Lynn Compton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lynn-compton.md)
- Book: [Call of Duty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lynn-compton/call-of-duty.md)
- Page: 250
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lynn_Compton#Call_of_Duty:_My_Life_Before,_During_and_After_the_Band_of_Brothers_(2008)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/lynn-compton/call-of-duty/to-try-to-distinguish

## More from this book

> As young people, my generation would see a lot of death. I don't think I ever grew accustomed to it. It came in darkness and fervor, by our airplanes, rifles, parachutes, and tanks. But there was something about that first death I experienced the summer of 1939 when I was just eighteen, years before the war, that stayed with me so strongly. Those first few seasons after my father died were dark indeed.

p. 54 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lynn-compton/call-of-duty/as-young-people.md)

> Sometimes the greatest signs of strength are demonstrated when you relive the hardest parts of your life. I'm not a man easily given to emotion. I hate to cry. Yet there are three things that cause me to tear up today. One is when I talk about the love I have for America. The second I'll tell you about later in this book. The third is whenever I remember by dad's suicide.

p. 53 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lynn-compton/call-of-duty/sometimes-the-greatest.md)

> Just before Christmas, 1944, we got word that the Germans had closed the circle around Bastogne. This meant that the 101st Airborne was now completely surrounded by the enemy. Dick Winters said once that being surrounded was no problem for paratroopers- we were used to that. For me, it's hard to describe the feeling of isolation. The heavy fog meant that we were cut off from any help from the sky. We were alone, out in the woods, surrounded, with desperately low supplies. We were in day-to-day survival mode. Build the occasional fire. Melt some snow. Find something to eat. Cook it in your helmet. Stay out of harm's way. Just do what you need to do to get through the day.

p. 138 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lynn-compton/call-of-duty/just-before-christmas.md)