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“In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'No,'" I ans...”
“He looked around at that one room, and the few things in it. He'd always thought retiring would be going back to his life after some nightmare pause. Some stretch of exile in the land of the dead. ...”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“...I have never cared for any men as much as for these who felt the first springs when I did, and saw death ahead, and were reprieved - and who now walk the long stormy summer. It is a generation s...”
“When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age, and experience disappear completely, and soon youre one-on-one with the topic at hand.”
“Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life.”
“All they expect from you is your best effort. These Marines think that they are special. They are very well trained, very close knit, and they don't like outsiders. If you want their respect, you w...”
