You liked him so much you just hated to let him down. He was, and is, all but worshiped by the men of E Company.
Without
Buckshot;
We sometimes forget, I think, that you can manufacture weapons, and you can purchase ammunition, but you can’t buy valor and you can’t pull heroes off an assembly line.
SHAEF had prepared for everything except the weather. It now became an obsession. It was the one thing for which no one could plan, and the one thing that no one could control. In the end, the most co...
Pvt. Felix Branham was in that boat. Colonel Canham had a BAR and a .45 and he was leading us in, Branham said. There he was firing and he got his BAR shot out of his hand and he reached and he used h...
No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the command,...
Molotov
Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the ter...
Burial practices illustrated the two men’s different outlooks. Custer believed a body should be buried in a long-lasting metal casket, thus removing the body from the ecological system by preventing b...
All that existed was precious in Crazy Horse’s religion—whatever a man did or thought was good, was wakan, so long as he obeyed his own inner voice, for that too was wakan.
Sobel was Jewish, urban, with a commission from the National Guard. Hester had started as a private, then earned his commission from Officer Candidate’s School (OCS). Most
Over the next two months Eisenhower labored
No, I realize that you didn’t think of it! But I did.
In October 1805, Stoddard’s tour left St. Louis, including forty-five Indians from eleven tribes. They arrived in Washington in January 1806. Jefferson gave them the standard Great Father talk: We are...
History of the United States in the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson,
Discipline is what makes an army—and civilization.
Crazy Horse called to his men, Ho-ka hey! It is a good day to fight! It is a good day to die! Strong hearts, brave hearts, to the front! Weak hearts and cowards to the rear.
Winters, Matheson, Nixon, and the others existed, Private Rader remembered. These were first-class people, and to think these men would care and share their time and efforts with us seemed a miracle....
On his thirty-first birthday, Lewis wrote, in a famous passage, This day I completed my thirty first year. . . . I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little indeed, to further the hapin...