Lieutenant James "Howell" Stratford

"I've watched so many good Gears die over stupid military operations that yielded nothing in return...I've watched men climb over piles of their own dead...dig trenches with their bare hands, leaving broken and bloody fingernails laying in the dirt. War is never what the bureaucrats say it is...they never tell you about the civilians who were gassed to death in their own homes, or the Gears left behind to find the very weapon they died to obtain during the Pendulum Wars used against them..."

- Lieutenant James "Howell" Stratford