In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.