Help with a quote...

If anyone stumbles across this blog and happens to know who wrote the following quote or what it is from could you please tell me.  I thought I memorized it from a book years ago but I've never been able to find it again and multiple internet searches have been no help.  At the time it is likely to have been from a romance novel though science fiction is also a possibility.  It could also have been from fan fiction but that should have turned up in an internet search.

War is a dead man's game.  It turns children into adults before their time.  It makes heroes of them when they die.  Peace will come when dead men learn to voice an opinion.  Until then the secrets of war are buried with our fallen heroes.