firing quotes

Today we have naming of parts.Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But today, Today we have naming of parts.Japonica Glistens like coral in all of the neighbouring gardens And today we have naming of parts.

- Henry Reed
  Lessons of theWar, pt.1,'Naming of Parts'.

Then, with that faint fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful,Walter Mitty, the undefeated, inscrutable to the last.

-James Grover Thurber
  'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', in the NewYorker,18 Mar.