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...
Ronald Spiers: The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without me...
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...
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...
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,...
Messina,
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.
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.
Addis Ababa;
Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction, careful as a father of those committed to his charge, yet ste...
Nor did the Americans find it necessary to wage a ruthless campaign. As has been mentioned previously, both sides respected
McGovern had other problems as well, personal ones with his
It is perhaps the consummate irony, Arthur Moore writes, that at each step up from savagery the human race has regarded the fruits of progress with a degree of misgiving and often longed against reaso...
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...
By the beginning of March, K Company, 333rd Regiment, had reached the Rhine. The men settled down in the village of Krefeld to await Montgomery’s Operation Plunder, the crossing of the river; Monty wa...
Anyone who has ever canoed on the upper Missouri River knows what a welcome sight a grove of cottonoods can be. They provide shade, shelter, and fuel. For Indian ponies, they provide food. For the Cor...
Aleutian Islands.
Without
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....
When the shooting started, they wanted to look up to the guy beside them, not down.