There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesnโt seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.
Rick AtkinsonThe spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.
Rick AtkinsonThe American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.
Rick AtkinsonThere were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. Thats almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.
Rick Atkinson