Life & Wisdom Quote by John H. Morgan

Survival, here, is written like bookkeeping: one more day cleared, body intact, account balanced. John H. Morgan’s sentence is almost aggressively plain, and that’s the point. In the middle of “very severe fighting,” he reaches for the safest language available - not the heroic register of war memoir, but the clipped relief of someone trying not to look too closely at what he just walked through.

“Very fortunate” does a lot of quiet work. It frames survival as luck, not skill or righteousness, and that subtle demotion strips the line of bravado. The repetition of “escaped... escaped” reads like a verbal double-knot, as if saying it twice might make it stay true. “Unhurt” lands with a hard simplicity: no flourish, no catalog of horrors, just the binary outcome that matters most to the person still able to write.

The subtext is emotional triage. He isn’t processing the battle; he’s controlling it by shrinking it into a status update. That restraint suggests both exhaustion and a learned discipline: the need to communicate calm to whoever is reading, and the need to preserve one’s own steadiness by refusing melodrama. Even the awkwardness of the phrasing - “escape through another day’s” - captures time as something you pass through like gunfire or weather.

Context matters because this is how war often enters the archive: not as cinematic narrative, but as a survivor’s minimal proof-of-life. The intent isn’t to dramatize; it’s to reassure, to mark continuity, to admit that the difference between living and dying can be as arbitrary as a day’s “fortune.”