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“The thing about walking closely with God is it has to be a minute-by-minute, day-by-day kind of relationship. No formula can suffice. You have to keep listening, keep following, keep being willing to act and to move on when it’s time.”
― Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
― Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
“Soldiers may accept a need to be the first to die in a war, but there is often an unseemly scramble to avoid becoming the last.”
― Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
― Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
“I stood among the heaps of the dead and I knew — no, I felt that death is only a sound we make to signify the Thing we do not know.”
― Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
― Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
“How to balance individual achievement and celebrity with the notional equality of the elite and the principles of shared power had been a major dilemma throughout the Roman Republic.”
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“Working from left to right, it called for the British 6th Airborne Division to begin its assault right after midnight, with the objectives of knocking out an enemy battery at Merville, seizing intact the bridges over the Orne River and the Orne Canal, blowing the bridges over the Dives, and generally acting as flank protection. The British 3rd Division, with French and British commandos attached, was to push across Sword Beach, then pass through Ouistreham to capture Caen and Carpiquet airfield. The Canadian 3rd Division was to push across Juno Beach and continue on until it cut the Caen-Bayeux highway. The British 50th Division at Gold had a similar objective, plus taking the small port of Arromanches and the battery at Longues-sur-Mer from the rear.”
― D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
― D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
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