"Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?"
- David Kenyon Webster
"Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice."
"Twelve years ago, when I was 10, I played at being a soldier. I walked up the brook behind our house in Bronxville to a junglelike, overgrown field and dug trenches down to water level with my friends..."
"Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in re..."