War Never Changes Ulysses S. Grant, American Civil War general and later president is quoted as saying: “I have never advocated war except as means of peace, so seek peace, but prepare for war. Because war . . . war never changes. War is like winter, and winter is coming.” (This may have been attributed to Grant’s Personal Memoirs which I have read numerous times, but I do not ever recall seeing it there). I am not in a position to judge war. My family has been in America since the 1680s, and at least one member of my ancestral … Continue reading The Beautiful People of Cameroon, the Last Days