When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

Stephen E. Ambrose

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The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen E. Ambrose

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

Stephen E. Ambrose

Tags: war heroism comradery



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plan your work and work your plan"

"where there is a will, there is a way

Stephen E. Ambrose

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The German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is going to be".

Stephen E. Ambrose

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Todd says that the doctor "was rather horrified because we passed a German who had had his head shot off, but his arms and legs were still waving about and strange noises were coming out of him, and i thought even the doctor was a bit turned over by that.

Stephen E. Ambrose


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Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.

Stephen E. Ambrose

Tags: small-mindedness petty chickenshit



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We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying

Stephen E. Ambrose

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We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace...

Stephen E. Ambrose

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Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

Stephen E. Ambrose

Tags: friends war prepared to-die-for



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