QUOTE : He said that before you go into a fight, you have all of these reasons—some of them important, some of them not. You go in thinking about your country, and justice, and all sorts of justification for fighting. But while you’re fighting, you realize that none of that really matters. What’s most important is keeping yourself alive, and the people that are important to you, and that’s it.” “Keeping myself alive,” she whispered and finally some animation returned to her face. “If we hadn’t killed them, they would have killed us.