mackenzie’s Reviews > Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and his Band of Brothers > Status Update

"we all know war stories seem to have a life of their own. they have a way of growing, of being embellished. whether the details are precise or not, there must be a kernel of truth for such a story to ever have been told the first time.”

"he worked hard to earn a reputation as a killer and he often killed for shock value. what he did in normandy was unbelievable, inexcusable. in today's army, speirs would have been court-martialed and charged with atrocities, but we desperately needed bodies, officers who led by example and were not afraid to engage the enemy. speirs fit the bill."

I knew he was a crazy mf!!!

"Technically, the second group of Germans he shot, although unarmed, were not yet prisoners. Speirs had simply not allowed them to surrender.”

dudeeee

speirs is bad at math just like me 💕