Stephen E. Ambrose Quote

[Currahee was more a hill than a mountain, but it rose 1,000 feet above the parade ground and dominated the landscape.] A few minutes later, someone blew a whistle. We fell in, were ordered to change to boots and athletic trunks, did so, fell in again—and then ran most of the three miles to the top and back down again. They lost some men that first day. Within a week, they were running—or at least double-timing—all the way up and back.