Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

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 answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.

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

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

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

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.