Richard Rubin
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“None of us who lined the road that morning could have known that what we were actually witnessing there in Orleans was the last small-town Veterans Day parade anywhere to feature a living American veteran of World War I.”
― The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
― The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
“It’s a funny thing about revolutions: Sometimes, they can begin very subtly. The Naval Reserve Act of 1916 started one not with a bold statement or action, but with an omission. What was omitted was any mention of the fact that you had to be a man to serve active duty in the Navy; by being omitted, it quietly ceased being a fact.”
― The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
― The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
“Tell me, what words can possibly do justice to the notion of a young man, freshly healed and back to fighting strength, being killed anonymously from a mile away by a lone piece of German artillery on the last night of the war?”
― The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
― The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
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