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"Overall a pretty good read. Have to wade through a lot of bs at times though for example Peto states he would wonder off from his unit for a significant period of time... one occasion where he was gone a couple days without being missed. Hardly seen accurate since everyone is essential. Also war stories seem to grow better with age. After years have gone by the teller gets braver. So seems with Peto" — Jun 20, 2019 10:00AM
"Overall a pretty good read. Have to wade through a lot of bs at times though for example Peto states he would wonder off from his unit for a significant period of time... one occasion where he was gone a couple days without being missed. Hardly seen accurate since everyone is essential. Also war stories seem to grow better with age. After years have gone by the teller gets braver. So seems with Peto" — Jun 20, 2019 10:00AM
learned a lesson on Attu which probably applied to all armies: not all soldiers are heroes—far from it; the army that wins, other things being fairly equal, is the army which has enough men to rise above duty, thus inspiring others to do
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“Among a broken people an unbroken man can only rarely be tolerated—he becomes a too-painful reminder of what the people as a whole had once been.”
― Crazy Horse
― Crazy Horse
“the first hour on the beach, 30 percent of the men in the Big Red One were either killed or wounded.”
― Every Man a Hero
― Every Man a Hero
“any. I worry that the connection to the past, to the values that put us on that beach and saw us through that terrible day—values that took us from Africa to Italy to France and beyond—will weaken and die when we are gone.”
― Every Man a Hero
― Every Man a Hero
“politicians only listened to these generals, and these generals only listened to themselves.”
― About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
― About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
“Out in the Pacific theater, marines and army soldiers landed on Saipan the week after we hit the beaches.”
― Every Man a Hero
― Every Man a Hero
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