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...fighting men in the old colonial powers got used to hearing that their sons had died in sordid skirmishes whose names nobody had heard of or - like the six Americans killed when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan last week - in accidents far from home. Guerrilla warfare may have fine American antecedents, but we have always recoiled from accepting a slow, endless drip of casualties from contests whose stated purpose we have long forgotten. Soon we may have to get used...
...would be refreshed the next morning. We had already heard a few days before about the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, an official at the German embassy in Paris, killed by a Polish Jew, and it was a very bad omen. Everything went fine until about 2:30 in the morning, when we were awakened by a big crash. I got up and didn't know what might have happened. I lived in a large dormitory room with two friends. I thought that it was something terrible and that we should be ready to meet the emergency. We packed...
...wasn't really scared. I was the platoon leader and had an awful lot on my mind. I had no time to think of myself. We had a very difficult mission, and we were thinking of how we were going to cope, and we did a very fine job. All told, 150,000 Allied soldiers came ashore that day. But it had its cost. I landed with 225 other Rangers, and only 90 were left standing at the end of the battle...
...Hodges brought an end to the guard the next day saying, "I do not subscribe to the theory that the attacker had an accomplice and I do not want to give any of our fine soldiers the impression that we don't trust them." He learned about the guard when he was challenged for a password while returning to his own tent, late in the evening. One officer jokingly asked Col. Hodges how he got past the guard without a password and received the reply, "I tried to overwhelm him with the sheer force of my personality. When that failed...
...HAVE TO LIVE 20 MORE YEARS, TILL YOU'RE 80. I'm fine with that...