Eric Wood

“Torture, after all, is inconspicuous; all it needs is water, a piece of wood and a loud voice. It takes place in squalid rooms, dirty back yards and basements, and there is nothing left to preserve when it is over.””

“However, I do spot this hand-painted sign, propped up by two pieces of wood on the side of the road. "When the last tree is cut,When the last river is emptied,When the last fish is caught, Only then will Man realize that he can not eat money.””

“Do not place confidence in that,” he warned Meade. “I have men in my Construction Corps who could construct bridges in forty-eight hours sufficient to pass that army, if they have no other material than such as they could gather from old buildings or from the woods, and it is not safe to assume that the enemy cannot do what we can.””